ART-AI students Catriona Gray, Elsa Zhong, Eoin Cremen, Jack McKinlay and Joseph Marvin Imperial have put together a submission to the UN Global Digital Compact. Catriona Gray writes,
“In 2024, a summit will take place that could shape the future of global cooperation on digital policy. Governments will agree a Global Digital Compact that will set out a common agenda on issues including data protection, internet governance, and AI regulation.
Ahead of the summit, there is a public consultation. As ART-AI students, we thought this would be a fantastic opportunity to draw on our interdisciplinary expertise and engage with a global policy process.
To do this, we convened a working group with ART-AI students and staff. We had collective discussions about the content of our contribution, and decided to focus on the theme of AI regulation. We then put together a report outlining what we think are some of the most significant policy dilemmas, and why we think interdisciplinary knowledge is so important in helping to tackle them.
Some of our recommendations included: exploring the feasibility of an intergovernmental expert panel on AI, similar to the IPCC for climate change; and a comprehensive review of AI governance within the UN system.
