Democratic dilemmas - reconciling public reimaginations of data and AI with current power concentrations
A multi-stakeholder all day event to look for concrete ways to support democracy, human judgement, and human agency in the context of increasingly pervasive AI, is being organised by the Centre for Data Futures (King’s College London) in collaboration with the Informational Democracy working group of the Max Planck Institute.
In the morning we will be organising a session alongside PAIRS partners.
This workshop session will draw upon PAIRS Public AI Voice and Engagement (PAVE) Case Book, and ongoing work to develop a citizens track in AI governance to explore different methods of participatory public engagement in the democratic governance of AI, whilst questioning what it takes for public voice to lead to substantive change.
Using examples of participatory public engagement around the world drawn from the case book, and mapping out sources of AI governance power, discussions will centre on the interventions needed for public input to be both legitimate and effective in reshaping AI.
Participants will work in small groups to explore a range of examples of participatory engagement with AI and to identify both design features of participation processes, and institutional architectures (in local government, national government, industry, etc.) that may increase the chance of participatory engagement leading to more democratic outcomes from AI.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Tim Davies, Research and Practice Director at Connected by Data
- Octava Field Reid, Associate Director (Public Participation & Research Practice) at Ada Lovelace Institute
- Dr Susan Oman, Senior Lecturer in Data, AI and Society at Centre for Machine Intelligence
- Molly May Shelton, Projects co-ordinator and networking at Assemble
- Giuseppe Dal Prá, Founder and CEO at Odyssean Institute
For more information about the day and to book tickets visit the eventbrite page