The GPAI Data Governance Working Group is committed to ensuring that AI is compatible with human rights, inclusion, diversity and economic growth, at the same time as benefiting society and respecting the principles of sustainable development.
In an interview, Jeni Tennison, Co-Chair of the Data Governance Working Group for the GPAI, discusses the need for fair data sharing through the creation of global data trusts.
The Responsible AI Working Group makes strides to tackle global warming, while minimizing greenhouse gas emissions generated by AI applications.
AI could play a major role in the drug discovery process. The current ecosystem is preventing this technology from flourishing. The group of GPAI
experts have proposed a ready-to-use and balanced roadmap for creating the right
incentives and better directing public procurement and support where markets fail to address
pressing issues.
How can AI be used to combat pandemics like COVID-19? How can similar threats be prevented in the future? This was the problem that the AI and Pandemic Response Working Group studied and reported on in its 2021 report.
The role of CEIMIA extends beyond purely coordination to working closely with GPAI experts to provide seed funding and actively identify knowledge partners, and even financial partners.
Jordan Zed, GPAI Steering Committee Co-Chair, recalls the work
accomplished over the past eighteen months by PMIA experts to promote responsible
artificial intelligence but also the role that must playing governments in this area.
Generally unfamiliar with AI, SMEs nevertheless provide 80-90% of all jobs and generate 70-75% of GDP, depending on the country concerned. To help them learn more about this technology, GPAI experts have built a model of an online portal where AI solution providers and SMEs can meet in the virtual world.
The Innovation and Commercialization Working Group assesses and recommends practical tools and methods that private actors and research organisations can use to stimulate international collaboration in AI-related R&D and innovation, with particular focus on SMEs.
Baroness Joanna Shields, Multi-stakeholder Expert Group Plenary Chair and GPAI Steering Committee Co-Chair outlines the key issues to be addressed at the Artificial Intelligence Summit to be held in Paris on 11 and 12 November. More specifically, she highlights the considerable body of work already completed by the working groups.
Renaud Vedel, the incoming Co-Chair of the GPAI Steering Committee, reiterates the mission of the Global Partnership on AI launched in 2020, which will hold this year’s Summit in Paris. The coordinator of the French government’s national strategy for artificial intelligence also talks about the many challenges that remain.
Whether future computer scientists or social scientists, students from around the world have temporarily quit their lecture theatres to become investigators for GPAI. It’s a valuable way for these future professionals to get to grips with the issues of AI in the corporate world and prepare for their own futures in that world.
There will be no battle between man and machine. Instead, GPAI experts are advocating a form of collaboration that has yet to be identified against a background of profound transformation in work practices as a result of AI. It’s a process that will require a lengthy socialisation phase for employees.
Next year, the GPAI experts intend to extend their thinking to include the effects of climate change on biodiversity in order to understand how AI tools can be used for this purpose.
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