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I had the good fortune of attending (virtually) Merve Hickok's discussion around AI Ethics with Gabriela Ramos, Assistant Director-General for the Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO, this morning. I'm familiar with UNESCO's work on AI Ethics, including the Recommendations on the Ethics of AI from 2021, from CAIDP's AI Policy clinics, but hearing Ramos speak with Hickok and their enthusiasm for the work at the Global Forum on the Ethics of AI 2024 exemplifies their commitment to broad participation as we define a future with AI. "Ownership" was the word they kept mentioning to describe the work of participants at the Forum. It's one of my favorite words when thinking about global cooperation and interactions. https://lnkd.in/emQuY8B7

This Sunday is Transgender Day of Visibility, so I want to make the impacts of AI on trans people more visible. Gender, bias, and discrimination are big topics in AI, but there is a glaring gap in research and policy work focused specifically on the unique issues that AI presents for trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people. We are vulnerable to many types of physical, psychological, social, and economic risks that cisgender people are not as vulnerable to. Gender recognition systems, automated decision-making, AI in healthcare, and generative AI are poised to magnify these risks, but our concerns are often omitted from discussions of AI bias, discrimination, ethics, policy, and governance. I've started compiling a reading list of sources that cover transgender issues in AI ethics & design. Hopefully this will help in bringing more awareness to these issues and in building a more comprehensive knowledge base of the work that's been done so far on this subject. If you are aware of any additional sources that look specifically at these issues, please do let me know - I'm very interested in expanding this list so that it can support the work of researchers, students, designers, and policymakers. Link to reading list: https://lnkd.in/eMyCM5m5 #transgenderdayofvisibility #lgbtq #ai #aiethics #aipolicy #aigovernance

The UNESCO Recommendation is the first universal normative framework for the #ethics of #AI. It was adopted unanimously by the 193 Member States of UNESCO in November 2021. It is based on the #promotion and #protection of human rights, human dignity, and #environmental #sustainability. It advances principles such as #accountability, and the rule of law, and includes concrete policy chapters that call for better #data #governance, #inclusivity and #gender #equality. It was one of the documents that was read and analyzed thoroughly during my Ethics of AI’s course at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) #AI #ethics #UNESCO #sustainability #resilience #democracy #human #law #governance #EU #gender #inclusivity #equality #rights #integity #artificialintelligence #difitaltransformation #generativeai #compliance #culture

My newest article A reflection on governance, ethics, and intellectual boundary enforcement in academic journals is forthcoming in Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: An International Journal. This work complements a recently published article by Dr Milena T. and Mustafa F Ozbilgin (https://lnkd.in/ewA2-_EX) The paper focuses on the aftermath of mass resignations from the leading feminist journal Gender, Work & Organization to highlight problematic issues that undermine inclusive academic publishing in regard to non-White, non-Western and/or early-career academics. Key Findings: - Lack of transparency in how editorships and board seats are allocated in many critically oriented academic journals - Conflicts of interest related to prolific ‘cartel’ or networked publishing among scholars create ethical challenges - Boundary enforcement of intellectual contributions results in narrowly defined academic communities that replicate racialized exclusionary practices A huge thanks to Eddy Ng, the anonymous reviewers and many friends and colleagues who offered their insights and suggestions :) Read it here: https://lnkd.in/e2CJN4jD #governance #ethics #whiteness #inclusion #exclusion #publishing #feminism #gender #research #edi

✌ Newsletter: 🎈🎈 “Untold The Truth” 🎈🎈 ✌ Edition 3 - ❤❤ 👩🏼 🍳 "Feminist Ethics and Gender Justice in the Current Era: Empowerment or Perpetuation of Bias?" 🍳 👩🏼🦰 ❤❤ 😉 Feminist ethics are important in the world today and reflect on judging gender justice, as well as equality, fairness. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced tech is a double-sided face of the coin for women. Whilst innovation provides revolutionary opportunities — improving access to education, work or healthcare. Yet on the other, they could simply make themselves parties to those mistakes they work so hard to correct. This paper "Feminist Ethics and Gender Justice in Contemporary Time: Empowerment or Discrimination" is based on this ethical issues which is contradictory supported by the literature., takes a closer look at the messy politics of AI, feminist ethics and gender justice metered out across these audio numbers. Albeit promising empowerment, AI also brings with it risks of privacy breach/ invasion, security threats and exploitation; putting women a lot more at stake. Using feminist ethics to investigate how AI services can either normalize or transgress the way our society works. Through this paper, we call for responsible, transparent AI development that meaningfully promotes inclusivity and equality of all women. Bikas Pandey #AIBias #GenderEquality #WomenInTech #TechForGood #DiversityInTech #BreakTheBias #WomenInAI #FeministEthics #GenderJustice #AIForEquality #WomenInTech #InclusiveAI #EmpowerWomen #TechForGood #EthicalAI #DigitalGenderEquality #BiasInAI #FutureOfWork #WomenEmpowerment #AIAndEthics #GenderEquity #TechForEquality #India #USA #Vikas #Bikas #jumlalive #kynindia #love #success #share #linkedin https://lnkd.in/gA3daPcx Feminist Ethics and Gender Justice in the Current Era: Empowerment or Perpetuation of Bias? https://lnkd.in/gizv8Zni

In today's AI-driven world, addressing its ethical implications is essential. 🧠 During International Women’s Month, Mishaal Ijaz, Katerina Nishan (Nissan), Guadalupe Calvo, Deborah Gee, Bowen Shi + Stephanie Seweryn Shine held a panel discussion on AI ethics and both the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Key takeaways from the panel: ✅ Addressing bias in AI algorithms is crucial for promoting fairness. ✅ Transparency in AI decision-making processes is essential for accountability. ✅ If you don't have guiding principles in place for tech development, now is the time to bring your cross-functional team together. Check out the full recap of our Ethics in AI panel 👉 https://okt.to/EUj13n #AI #Ethics #DiversityAndInclusion #DEI

For those of you interested in international policy developments in AI, this webinar is hosted by the organization that trained me last year though the AI Policy Clinic (Center for AI and Digital Policy). 9am ET on Thursday the 18th, with the wonderful Merve Hickok hosting Director-General Gabriela Ramos of the UNESCO (where I did my internship in Chile!) The UNESCO ethics framework was the first of its kind, and many AI laws around the world are based on it. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/djnMGWUk Register: https://lnkd.in/d_eZRQvT #EthicalAI #UNESCO #CAIDP #InternationalPolicy

The Art of Ethics. Ethics in government and business has become a super hot topic of late, given there’s increasingly less evidence that there’s much of it going round. So this ethical conundrum, discussed in this TikTok video by union activist Willemina Stracke, seemed topical. It started when a Tasmanian man took a female artist exhibiting at the MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) in Hobart to court for discrimination against men for not allowing men access to a women’s only exhibit titled ‘The Ladies Lounge’ - the whole premise of which was to highlight women being denied access to men’s drinking spaces. For my money, not being permitted access would have made the artist’s point and that, for me, would have been the end of it. Yeah, I’d be curious about what was inside, but not to the point of taking the artist to court for discrimination. I mean Jeebus! But some straight men just feel the compulsive and irrational need to be in total control - including control of things that have nothing to do with them, like women’s reproductive cycles, or who I as a gay male choose to have sex with - and to have the final and very aggressively assertive say. Like the straight guy who took a Sydney gay bar to court for advertising themselves as a ‘gay mens only space’. He felt discriminated against. Poor widdle diddums. As for me, having been ‘politely’ made to feel unwelcome and unsafe in straight bars to the point of leaving being the only option, and having subsequently ‘politely’ returned the favour to straight guys pushing their way into gay bars, I’m very firmly on the Tasmanian female artist’s side. I mean, it’s a simple matter of ethics. Men weren’t invited to view the ‘Ladies Bar’ exhibit. So why would a straight man feel he had an ethical and legal right to demand access to a women’s-only event? Especially when the point of the exhibit was that, for generations, women were refused access to men’s bars because they believed they had a right to discriminate against women? I mean, is men demanding access to a girls’ only Bridal Showers a thing? Do some men, not the father of unborn babies, demand access to hospitals to watch a women they don’t know giving birth to someone else’s kid? Do straight men just have ethical rights over everyone else, and I’m just too stoopid to understand? Or do many people just not understand the difference between ethics and puffed up self righteous ego? #ethics #artofethics #mona https://lnkd.in/geW9BkUB

🌍 We're continuing our series on regional findings from the 2023 Government AI Readiness Index! Today's region: Sub-Saharan Africa. 📈 Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest average score of any region in the Index, but there was real growth in 2023. Three countries unveiled new national AI strategies, with one forthcoming, and 3 countries are collaborating with UNESCO on AI ethics. 📊 Mauritius🇲🇺 leads with a score of 53.27, excelling in the Government pillar. South Africa🇿🇦 leads in the Data & Infrastructure and Technology Sector pillars, and is the only country in the region to score above the global average in the Tech Sector pillar. Rwanda🇷🇼, Senegal🇸🇳, and Benin🇧🇯, who all released AI strategies in 2023, round out the top 5. 📄 Rwanda🇷🇼, Senegal🇸🇳, and Benin🇧🇯's new AI strategies mark significant progress as the first in mainland Sub-Saharan Africa. It's also worth noting that these countries are all low or lower middle income. This goes against the trend elsewhere, where higher income countries are typically the first to develop AI strategies. 🚀 This also shows that AI is on the international development agenda, as Rwanda🇷🇼's AI strategy was supported by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH's FAIR Forward, World Economic Forum, and The Future Society, while Senegal🇸🇳's was supported by Digital for Development (D4D) Hub. 🤝 We've also seen international collaboration: Namibia🇳🇦 hosted a UNESCO forum on AI with ministers from 6 other countries. Cote d'Ivoire🇨🇮, Namibia🇳🇦, and Rwanda🇷🇼 are working with UNESCO on AI ethics, and FAIR Forward and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data worked with Kenyan🇰🇪 experts on an AI Practitioners Guide. 🌐 There's been progress on data policy: Nigeria🇳🇬 enacted a new Data Protection Act, and Senegal🇸🇳 published a National Data Strategy developed with Smart Africa and GIZ. 🔮 Looking ahead, we can expect a further increase in national AI strategies with Ethiopia🇪🇹 and Nigeria🇳🇬 announcing forthcoming strategies. The AfricanUnion's forthcoming Continental AI Strategy is also highly anticipated and could provide a blueprint for countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. 🗺 You can find the full report, rankings, and all regional findings, on our website. Remember to check out our interactive data map — just click a country to see its detailed scores and compare to other countries, regions, or income groups. 👇 https://lnkd.in/epiz5GCS #ai #artificialintelligence #aireadiness #publicsector

WEBINAR April 24, 12PT/3ET. There's no denying that AI, particularly generative AI, is the hottest tech topic right now, and you would be forgiven if you felt whiplash trying to decide who is painting the more accurate picture of an AI future between the AI zealots and the AI fearmongers. In this webinar, we're going to try to strike the right balance of acknowledging how your work is going to be affected by this AI boom, pointing you in the right direction to make the most of it, and arming you with the knowledge you need (and the right questions to ask) to live up to your own values when using AI tools...and demanding ethical AI policies and practices from the companies and people with whom you partner. Join social entrepreneur, technologist, and educator Mia Shah-Dand who advises large organizations on the responsible adoption of new and emerging technologies. She is the CEO of Lighthouse3 tech advisory group, founder of Women in AI Ethics™ Ethics ™, and creator of “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™” list. Mia is known for her leadership on gender equality and equity in tech as well as her advocacy for inclusion of diverse ethical perspectives in AI design and development. #AIethics #womeninAI https://lnkd.in/giC_YNSi