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Data Policy Digest

Gavin Freeguard ▪ Nov 16, 2023

Hello, and welcome to our ninth Data Policy Digest, bringing you all the latest data and AI policy developments. We have a wrap up of the AI Summit - and fully endorse this sentiment - but there’s also a lot about to happen, Bills-wise.

If there’s something we’ve missed, something you’re up to that you’d like us to include next time or you have any thoughts on how useful the Digest is or could be, please get in touch via gavin@connectedbydata.org. We’re on Twitter @ConnectedByData and @DataReform. You can also catch up on Digest #1, Digest #2, Digest #3, Digest #4, Digest #5, Digest #6, Digest #7 and Digest #8.

People's Panel on AI Bulletin 5 - Recommendations and Review

Tim Davies ▪ Nov 3, 2023

This is the fifth People’s Panel on AI Bulletin, and our last daily update - covering the Panel’s presentation event. You can find earlier bulletins from the week here. Look out for one more update soon with the final report, and please do take a few minutes to provide your feedback through the anonymous evaluation survey.

People's Panel on AI Bulletin 4

Tim Davies ▪ Nov 2, 2023

This is the fourth bulletin from the People’s Panel on AI, sharing observations and insights from Connected by Data as an observer. You can find earlier bulletins here.

Today, the panel focus turned from exploring AI, to thinking about the ways industry, academia, government and civil society can respond.

People's Panel on AI Bulletin 3

Tim Davies ▪ Nov 1, 2023

This is the third bulletin from the People’s Panel on AI, sharing observations and insights from Connected by Data as an observer. You can find earlier bulletins here.

Today, as well as joining plenary sessions at the AI Fringe, the People’s Panel members have been engaged in lots of small-group work: from hands-on learning with generative AI tools, to one-to-one conversations with scientists at the Hopes and Fears lab.

People's Panel on AI Bulletin 2

Tim Davies ▪ Oct 31, 2023

This is the second People’s Panel on AI Bulletin. You can find earlier bulletins here. In this update, reflections from our first half-day on:

Building public trust: communication campaigns, or open conversation?
Making sense of AI: early questions from the panel
Dealing with data: questions on privacy protection and model training.

But first, a quick summary of the day.

AI Summit is dominated by Big Tech and a “missed opportunity”, civil society organisations tell Prime Minister

Adam Cantwell-Corn ▪ Oct 30, 2023

More than 100 UK and international organisations, experts and campaigners sign open letter to Rishi Sunak
Groups warn that the “communities and workers most affected by AI have been marginalised by the Summit.”
“Closed door event” is dominated by Big Tech and overly focused on speculative risks instead of AI threats “in the here and now”- PM told
Signatories to letter include leading human rights organisations, trade union bodies, tech orgs, leading academics and experts on AI

People's Panel on AI Bulletin 1

Tim Davies ▪ Oct 27, 2023

On Wednesday, the 12 members of the People’s Panel on AI met on Zoom for the first time, in a two-hour introduction and context-setting session. Next week they’ll spend four days in London engaging with the AI Fringe, to engage with experts, and follow updates from the AI Safety Summit.

Earlier, we held a briefing session to provide more background about the panel. You can find the recording here.

From Tuesday -> Friday next week we aim to share a daily bulletin with you - providing insights, updates and questions coming from panel deliberations.

Data Policy Digest

Gavin Freeguard ▪ Oct 27, 2023

Hello, and welcome to our eighth Data Policy Digest, bringing you all the latest data and AI policy developments.

If there’s something we’ve missed, something you’re up to that you’d like us to include next time or you have any thoughts on how useful the Digest is or could be, please get in touch via gavin@connectedbydata.org. We’re on Twitter @ConnectedByData and @DataReform. You can also catch up on Digest #1, Digest #2, Digest #3, Digest #4, Digest #5, Digest #6 and Digest #7.

Data Policy Digest

Gavin Freeguard ▪ Sep 29, 2023

Hello, and welcome to our seventh Data Policy Digest, bringing you all the latest data and AI policy developments.

And Happy International Access to Information Day for yesterday! There is a lot of information to access in today’s edition, including a rundown of the various data and AI policy events at party conferences for those of you lucky enough to be going. I’ll be at Conservative, Green and Labour conferences if you want to say hi (assuming I recover from yesterday’s shocking news from Google).

If there’s something we’ve missed, something you’re up to that you’d like us to include next time or you have any thoughts on how useful the Digest is or could be, please get in touch via gavin@connectedbydata.org. We’re on Twitter @ConnectedByData and @DataReform. You can also catch up on Digest #1, Digest #2, Digest #3, Digest #4, Digest #5 and Digest #6, or sign up to the Digest and/or Connected by Data’s monthly newsletter via email.

Practical approaches for people power in data and AI governance

Tim Davies ▪ Oct 22, 2023

Challenge 9 of the Open Gov Challenge calls for a focus on digital governance: strengthening transparency and public oversight of AI and data protection frameworks.

It is abundantly clear that, as uses of data and AI continue to grow in power - both in the public and private sectors - that protecting and extending democratic control over these technologies requires a concerted effort.

People's Panel on AI Progress Update

Tim Davies ▪ Oct 21, 2023

Join us for a 30 minute briefing on the People’s Panel on Friday 29th October at 09:30am and/or register for daily updates in Summit week

One month ago, after listening to an episode of the Facilitating Public Deliberation podcast on Citizen’s Juries and the Oregon Citizens Initiative Review I put together and shared around a rough concept note to propose a deliberative citizen’s review of the upcoming AI Safety Summit and AI Fringe. The idea is simple: if the impacts of AI are going to be felt by everyone, then we need more than just industry, government or elite institutional voices to be shaping the debate.

Meeting the digital governance challenge - prospective open government actions

Tim Davies ▪ Sep 5, 2023

How should the toolkit of open government be applied to the governance of data and AI? That’s the question we set out to ask with our design lab workshop on the fringes of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) summit earlier this week.

The answer we arrived at: we need policy commitments that move beyond transparency alone, to centre the informed voice of citizens and affected communities in deliberating on and setting out the social licence for data and AI systems to operate, and in monitoring their procurement, implementation and impacts.

Weeknotes are a combination of updates and personal reflection written on a routine basis