Introduction
The Alan Turing Institute is proud to be an official partner of AI Fringe, a free, public-facing event complementary to the UK Government’s AI Safety Summit. We invite you to join us in London on October 30 - November 3 for a series of engaging discussions around responsible AI practices with a diverse community of individuals across the AI industry, civil society and academia.
About the event
Over the past year, the rapid proliferation of generative AI applications like ChatGPT has raised increasingly urgent questions about the multidimensional impacts of AI on present and future humanity. On November 1 and 2 the UK government will host an international AI Safety Summit, aiming ‘to make frontier AI safe, and to ensure nations and citizens globally can realise its benefits’. Achieving these ambitions has, however, so far proven challenging in a global AI innovation ecosystem that has often been shaped by prevailing power asymmetries, historical legacies of inequality, and widening digital divides.
In this one-day event, Queen Mary University of London in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI, and Big Innovation Centre will broaden the conversation around the current turning point in safe and responsible AI: How can people and communities, at both local and global levels, realise the benefits, and the immense potential, of AI given existing socioeconomic and political headwinds?
How can current constellations of geopolitics, digital infrastructure, and economic power be reordered to better serve the public interest and to accelerate AI for the social good?
In short, how can we create more equitable AI governance futures?
Agenda
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Registration |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Opening keynote UNESCO’s Assistant Director General will set the scene for the day, exploring the importance of inclusive rights-based visions of AI ethics and governance that centre social justice concerns. |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | AI and Children’s Rights While children’s lives are increasingly shaped by AI, children’s voices have so far been missing in conversations about AI or AI policy. In this session we bring together experts in the fields of children’s rights and practitioners working with AI technologies that impact children’s lives to explore the opportunities and challenges of child-centred approaches to AI. |
| 10:50 - 11:35 | Global Data Justice and Generative AI This panel explores the multidimensional ethical and safety implications of generative and frontier AI through the lenses of global data justice. The interdisciplinary conversation will focus on the critical need for diversity in AI research, values-based regulatory approaches, the geopolitics of digital infrastructures, and alternative, equity-driven models of AI production and use. |
| 11:40- 12:10 | Fireside Chat with Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard) on Academia and the GenAI Revolution This conversation will explore the transformative effects of the rising generative AI era on teaching, learning, and scholarship with an emphasis on the role that responsible data science and public communication can play in managing risks to academic and research integrity. |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | Inclusive International AI Governance in the Age of Foundation Models The rapid evolution of generative AI technologies has put a spotlight on the need for standards and methods of evaluation that address the governance needs surrounding foundation models and take account of the interests of stakeholder groups and impacted communities across the globe. This panel, hosted in collaboration with the AI Standards Hub, will explore this thorny issue, with an emphasis on inclusive international cooperation. |
| 13:50 - 14:35 | Launching the National AI Ethics and Governance in Practice Programme This session will launch the national public sector AI Ethics and Governance in Practice programme, a series of eight workbooks, mandated in the UK’s National AI Strategy, that will update the UK’s official Public Sector AI Ethics and Safety Guidance. The panel will discuss the importance of the responsible and trustworthy development, procurement, and use of AI technologies in the public sector and how corresponding public sector standards of good practice can serve as a model for the broader AI innovation ecosystem. |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Closing remarks |
