The Public Voice: AI, Ethics, and Fundamental Rights
23 October 2018
14:30h to 17:30h
Venue: Sax Room, Palais d’Egmont, Brussels, Belgium
Registration:
Registration required and attendance is limited to registrants of the 40th ICDPPC. To register, please email brussels18@thepublicvoice.org with your NAME and AFFILIATION. Registration closes Friday 19 October at noon.
Description:
A broad coalition of civil society organizations under the umbrella of the “Public Voice Coalition” have joined together the plan this three part event. This Public Voice event will review the impacts on AI, from debates on human rights, consumer protection, competition; on how to enforce existing laws in the age of AI; on the relationship between ethics and the law and more. Following the keynote presentation, Panel 1 will review AI’s impacts on established legal frameworks, from human rights, consumer protection, & competition. Panel 2 will cover the relationship of ethics and the law in the realm of AI, honing in on ways to successfully supplement ethical obligations with legal ones, the ethical risks of AI, and emerging ethical principles.
Keynote 14:30-14:50
Panel 1 14:50-16:10
Panel 2 16:10-17:30
Keynote Speaker:
Anita Allen, Vice Provost for Faculty, Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law, and Professor of Philosophy at University of Pennsylvania Law School
Panel 1:
Moderator: Anna Fielder, Senior Policy Advisor, Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD), and Board Member, European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Dr. Eduardo Bertoni, Director, Argentina National Data Protection Authority
Fanny Hidvégi, European Policy Manager, Access Now
Dr. Alessandro Mantelero, Rapporteur on Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection, Council of Europe (COE), Professor of Private Law, Polytechnic University of Turin
Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, President, CNIL
Agustin Reyna, Chief Competition Officer, BEUC: The European Consumer Organisation
Hugh Stevenson, Head of U.S. Delegation, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Consumer Policy Committee, and Deputy Director, Office of International Affairs, Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Panel 2:
Moderator: Marc Rotenberg, President and Executive Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Gallia Daor, Junior Policy Analyst, Digital Economy Policy Division, Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Elizabeth Denham, UK Information Commissioner, Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
Helen Dixon, Data Protection Commissioner for Ireland
Andrea Jelinek, Chair, European Data Protection Board, and Head, Austria Data Protection Authority
Valeria Milanes, Digital Programme Director, Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC)
Nguyen Anh Tuan, Director, Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI), and, CEO, Boston Global Forum (BGF)
Civil Society Organizers:
Fanny Hidvégi, European Policy Manager, Access Now
Estelle Massé, Senior Policy Analyst, Access Now
Alexandrine Pirlot de Corbion, Global South Programme Lead, Privacy International
Valeria Milanes, Digital Programme Director, Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC)
María Paz Canales, Executive Director, Derechos Digitales
Sheetal Kumar, Programme Lead, GP Digital
Anna Fielder, Senior Policy Advisor, Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD), and Board Member, European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Jeff Chester, U.S. Co-Chair, Information Society Policy Committee, Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD), and Executive Director, Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)
Marc Rotenberg, President, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Eleni Kyriakides, International Counsel, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
AI – Law, Ethics and Issues
- Council of Europe, Algorithms and AI development
- U.S. Public Policy Council of the Association for Computing Machinery, Statement on Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability (12 January 2017)
- IEEE-USA, Artificial Intelligence Research, Development and Regulation (10 February 2017)
- IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-being with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, Version 2 (2017)
- Aspen Institute, David Bollier, Rapporteur, Artificial Intelligence: The Great Disruptor (2018)
- Opinion of the LIBE Committee for the Committee on Legal Affairs with recommendations to the Commission on Civil Law Rules on Robotics (23 November 2016)
- European Commission, Commission appoints expert group on AI and launches the European AI Alliance (14 June 2018)
- European Parliament Recommendations to the Commission on Civil Law Rules on Robotics (27 January 2017)
- OECD, Going Digital: Making the Transformation Work for Growth and Well-being (June 2017)
- Future of Life Institute, Asilomar AI Principles (2017)
- Japan, Draft AI R&D GUIDELINES for International Discussions (28 July 2017)
- UNESCO, Report of Comest on Robotics Ethics (14 September 2017)
- EPIC, Algorithmic Transparency, Epic.org
- Petition from EPIC, scientific organizations, and experts to OSTP for Request for Information on Artificial Intelligence Policy (4 July 2018)
- Danielle Keats Citron & Frank Pasquale, The Scored Society: Due Process for Automated Predictions, 89 Wash. L. Rev. 1 (2014)
- Jack Balkin, The Three Laws of Robotics in the Age of Big Data, 78 Ohio St. L.Rev. 1217 (2017)
- Cynthia Dwork & Aaron Roth, The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy, 9 Theoretical Computer Science 211 (2014)
Resources
- The International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners’ Madrid Resolution (2009)
- The Public Voice Madrid Declaration (2009) [Espanol] [English] [French] [Additional Translations]
- Council of Europe Convention 108
- OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data
Previous Public Voice Events
- The Public Voice Conference: Emerging Privacy Issues: A Dialogue Between NGOs & DPAs (Hong Kong, 2017)
- The Public Voice Conference: Our Data, Our Lives (Warsaw 2013)
- The Public Voice Conference: Privacy Rights are a Global Challenge (Punta del Este 2012)
- The Public Voice Civil Society Meeting: Next Generation Privacy Challenges and Opportunities (Jerusalem 2010)
- The Public Voice: Global Privacy Standards in a Global World (Madrid 2009)
- United Nations. IV Internet Governance Forum (Sharm El Sheikh 2009)
- OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy (Seoul 2008)
- Civil Society Privacy Conference: Privacy Rights in a World Under Surveillance (Montreal 2007)
- OECD Participative Web Forum: Shaping policies for creativity, confidence and convergence (Ottawa 2007)
- Africa Electronic Privacy and Public Vocie Symposium (Cape Town 2004)
- Public Voice Symposium: Privacy in a New Era: Challenges, Opportunities and Partnerships (Wroclaw 2004)
- Public Voice Roundtable: Consumers and Privacy in South America (Buenos Aires 2004)
- The Public Voice in the Digital Economy (Hawaii 2003)
- The Public Voice in Internet Policy (Washington 2002)
- The Public Voice in Emerging Market Economies (Dubai 2001)
Contact
Eleni Kyriakides, EPIC International Counsel
Electronic Privacy Information Center
+1 202 483 1140 x 111
brussels18@thepublicvoice.org
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