A multi-stakeholder event to look for concrete ways to support democracy, human judgement, and human agency in the context of increasingly pervasive AI, organised by the Centre for Data Futures (King’s College London) in collaboration with the Informational Democracy working group of the Max Planck Institute.

Summary:

How can we harness AI in support of democratic revival? How can we develop processes, methods, and policies to facilitate community-centred development of AI to support human agency and democracy? Is it technically and politically realistic to think that the AI, as a technology and as a socio-technical sphere, could support democratic revival rather than contribute to its erosion?

The event will bring in the same room decision-makers, researchers, community-enablers, and funders to develop a research and practice agenda to make AI a force for democratic revival.

The day will be structured around :

· A Keynote by Dame Diane Coyle (Cambridge, DBE FAcSS) with high-profile respondents

· A panel on how individual interpretability doesn’t shield us from collective deskilling

· A panel on how to move beyond ‘participation theatre'

· A collective design session and agenda-setting participatory activities

· A session led by Connected by Data's Participatory AI & Research Symposium

· A session led by the Informational Democracy working group of the Max Planck Institute

This event is by invitation only