2023:Program/Legal, Advocacy, and Risks/T7CPXW-Exploring the Values That Will Shape AI for a Better internet
Title: Exploring the Values That Will Shape AI for a Better internet
Speakers:
Nate Angell
Nate is an evangelist connecting people, ideas, and technologies to try to make things better, now leading communications and community at Creative Commons. He’s worked across a wide variety of public and private institutions, focusing on community development, digital communications, meaningful education, open technologies, and sustainable growth. He lives in Portland, Oregon USA with some other cats and humans. Learn more about Nate on his blog.
Room: Room 324
Start time: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 11:15:00 +0800
End time: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0800
Type: No (pretalx) session type id specified
Track: Legal, Advocacy, and Risks
Submission state: confirmed
Duration: 45 minutes
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Presentation language: en
Abstract & description[edit source]
Abstract[edit source]
AI is deeply connected to networked digital technologies — from the bazillions of works harvested from the internet to train AI to all the ways AI is shaping our online experience, from generative content to recommendation algorithms and simultaneous translation. This workshop will engage participants directly in helping to shape how AI fits in to the Movement for a Better Internet’s people-powered policy agenda.
Description[edit source]
We have all witnessed the internet’s ability to democratize knowledge, give voice to the voiceless, and support shared online spaces. We have also seen how the internet’s evolution can cause unanticipated harms and how tools for sharing can be misused to manipulate, mislead, and limit choice. With artificial intelligence (AI) coming online, we now also see how benefits and harms can be augmented and accelerated at scale.
Organizations that have been championing digital human rights to benefit people everywhere are collaborating on an emerging Movement for a Better Internet (https://www.movementforabetterinternet.org). Our primary goal is to produce a statement of values that underpin a broader public interest vision and a collaborative policy agenda for a better internet. Together we are working to crystalize shared values about what would constitute “better” and chart paths to get to a better internet from different perspectives.
This roundtable — facilitated by team members from the Movement’s organizing partners like Creative Commons, the Internet Archive, Public Knowledge, and the Wikimedia Foundation — will bring together the Wikimania community to think through how artificial intelligence intersects with a better internet. What is AI enabling? What is AI foreclosing? And for who? How has AI already changed the internet, and what more changes could it bring? How is AI affecting the public interest online? What new issues emerge as AI both consumes and shapes the internet?
Workshop participants will spend time fostering a deeper shared understanding of how AI fits into an emerging movement to build a better internet and what will inform a positive policy agenda to build a better internet that includes AI. Our goal is to collaborate with participants to generate concrete ideas we all can use to ensure AI is helping to make the internet a better place for everyone. We will publish roundtable outcomes as a collaborative, open document.
Further details[edit source]
Qn. How does your session relate to the event themes: Diversity, Collaboration Future?
The Movement for a Better Internet grew out of earlier open conversations on a better internet during the Creative Commons Global Summit in October 2021 (https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/22/introducing-the-better-internet-series/). That conversation has continued and evolved into a growing movement that is working to generate shared public interest policy agendas on key internet technologies and topics, like AI. Wikimania’s themes are core to the Movement’s work, as we collaborate with diverse stakeholders to build a public interest policy agenda to shape the future of the internet. This roundtable will be a golden opportunity for us to engage voices from Wikimania in our agenda for AI, which is trained in part by Wikimedia’s huge collection of open content.
Qn. What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
Everyone can participate in this session
Qn. What is the most appropriate format for this session?
Onsite in Singapore
Remote online participation, livestreamed- Remote from a satellite event
- Hybrid with some participants in Singapore and others dialing in remotely
- Pre-recorded and available on demand
