AI in the City : Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust

How can we, as members of academia and civil society, make a difference in the way artificial intelligence (AI) is being procured, deployed, and used? Can trustworthy technology be created when there is no institutional trust? 

CIRM’s AI in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust Symposium will be a day of discussions on what civic engagement and public trust in the era of artificial intelligence (AI) can look like in cities. It will be an opportunity to consolidate a network of multidisciplinary scholars, activists, and practitioners involved in a diverse range of initiatives, from research to advocacy, and map strategies to take this agenda forward. Bringing in local, national and global discourses, this symposium will explore questions related to trustworthy technology, participation in AI, digital rights, data ethics, algorithmic impact assessments, and tech policy in urban spaces.

Organized and moderated by: 

• Ana Brandusescu – PhD Student, McGill University; 2019-2021 McConnell Professor of Practice, CIRM 
• Jess Reia – Assistant Professor, School of Data Science, University of Virginia; 2020-2021 BMO Fellow, CIRM

Panel 1: Public trust and AI   09:30 - 10:45 AM

Panelists: 

• Bianca Wylie – Tech Reset Canada; Digital Public
• Chenai Chair – Mozilla Foundation; My Data Rights (Africa)
• Miko Cañares - StepUp Consultants  
• Nanjira Sambuli – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace  
• Renata Ávila – Open Knowledge Foundation 

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Panel 2: Meaningful civic engagement with data and AI  1:00 – 2:45 PM 

Panelists: 

• Caroline Running Wolf – UBC; Indigenous Protocol & AI Working Group   
• J. Carlos Lara - Derechos Digitales 
• Mich Spieler - @MichSpieler on Twitter 
• Renée Cummings – University of Virginia 
• Renée Sieber – McGill University

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