IGF 2024 Lightning Talk #124 Principles for Enabling Responsible AI Innovations in India:

    The Dialogue
    Kamesh Shekar, Senior Programme Manager - The Dialogue, Civil Society and Asia-Pacific

    Speakers

    Kazim Rizvi, Founding Director - The Dialogue, Civil Society and Asia-Pacific
    Urvashi Aneja, Director - Digital Futures Lab, Civil Society and Asia-Pacific

    Onsite Moderator

    Jameela Sahiba, Senior Programme Manager - The Dialogue, Civil Society and Asia-Pacific

    Rapporteur

    Shruti Shreya, Senior Programme Manager - The Dialogue, Civil Society and Asia-Pacific

    SDGs

    9.1
    9.5
    9.a
    9.b
    17.16
    17.17
    17.19


    Targets: This session will discuss an ecosystem approach to AI governance, which aims to promote the responsible evolution and innovation of AI technologies. The ecosystem approach discusses the importance of global partnerships to ensure coordination in governing AI, which is the crux of one of the sustainable development goals (Goal 17).

    Format

    The session format will be structured, considering both onsite and online attendees, where everyone, irrespective of the medium, would be equally treated and could reap maximum insights from the session. We will make the session interactive by allotting sufficient time for attendees' discussion and contribution to the topics. Following the presentation, the floor will be set for moderated open discussion where any attendees could post their comments, interventions, research ideas, etc., on the topic to the forum. The attendees will also be encouraged to pose questions to the speakers and authors of the report. The onsite moderator will probe the online and onsite attendees to feel free to contribute to the discussion, and an equal chance will be given to both online and onsite attendees. Also, the online moderator will keep the chat on Zoom live and active by stimulating conversations.

    Duration (minutes)
    30
    Description

    Through this lighting talk, I will present my paper titled " Principles for Enabling Responsible AI Innovations in India: An Ecosystem Approach” and host an open-door paper discussion with the experts. This paper assumes extraordinary significance within the transformative AI technologies landscape. The paper proposes a principle-based multistakeholder approach that resonates with the foundational values of responsible AI envisioned by various jurisdictions and is geared towards ensuring that AI innovations align with societal values and priorities. At its core, principled commitment mapped to various stakeholders with an AI ecosystem could elevate human well-being, agency, and ethical considerations.

    There are various kinds of literature on the risk management of AI at the development level focusing on uni-stakeholder, i.e., AI developers. However, the approach to this paper for establishing an effective governance structure for AI would involve multi-stakeholders, including AI developers, AI deployers and impact population, where we map principles for different stakeholders within the AI ecosystem to make it trustworthy and safe. Moreover, this paper will effectively contribute to the discussion on developing an effective governance structure for AI to enhance its opportunities while mitigating its impact and harms at the international level, where the importance of global coordination and cooperation has become more predominant now than ever.

    Link to the paper: https://thedialogue.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FINALAI-Position-Pape…

    All participants, both online and onsite, will be an important part of the audience. Therefore, online and onsite moderators will cooperate to ensure that both online and onsite participants will have an equal opportunity to join the discussion with speakers and to ask them questions. Moderators will especially ensure that there is a common queue of questions for online and onsite participants so that each group has the same priority in asking questions to the speakers, whether they are online or onsite. Online collaboration tools, such as Mural, will be used for interactive exercises and brainstorming sessions; online polling tools will gather instant feedback from both onsite and online participants; and designated hashtags will promote online discussions and insight sharing on social media platforms, promoting engagement and extending the lighting talk's reach beyond the event.