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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

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