IGF 2024 Lightning Talk #9 Privacy, Policy and Power in Asia's AI Regulations

    APAC GATES
    Seth Hays, Managing Director of APAC GATES, Asia region.

    Speakers

    Seth Hays, Managing Director of APAC GATES, Asia region.

    Onsite Moderator

    Seth Hays

    Rapporteur

    Seth Hays

    SDGs

    9.c
    16.3


    Targets: In particular, the use of existing privacy rules enhances the rule of law in the regulation of AI, thus supporting 16.3.
    Additionally, interoperable rules shared from best practices, as will be shared in the presentation from privacy regulators around Asia will build policies that enhance and improve this new emerging technology - thus supporting 9.c.

    Format

    Lightening talk that will go through practical best practices identified by 5 Asia Pacific privacy regulators regarding AI. Substantive presentation for 15 minutes, followed by audience Q&A and discussion for 5 minutes.

    Duration (minutes)
    20
    Description

    The Asia-Pacific region does not yet have a specific act regulating AI, and global discourse revolves around activity in the US, EU and China more generally. But Asia's privacy regulators are addressing AI on-the-ground. This session will review activity taken by privacy regulators in South Korea, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong to address AI. We identify best-practices and recommend that sharing of best practices should be promoted to regions with weaker privacy regimes in order to leap frog on AI regulation - and prevent a digital divide in AI governance.
    For the longer paper please see the following link (to be published shortly): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R6hFZK_Tn3n_o3F6ew-UuG7nIBnagRjaTGP…

    We can easily involve hybrid attendees by taking questions from the online audience as well as onsite audience. The presentation will be done in concise and direct language. We can add survey and questionnaire to get online audience and in person audience the ability to do word clouds, and suggest ideas generated from the substance of the speech.