Session
Organizer 1: Vicky Charisi, Harvard University, USA
Organizer 2: Randy Gomez, HONDA Research Institute, Japan
Organizer 3: Regester Dominic, Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria
Organizer 4: Daniella DiPaola, MIT, Media Lab, USA
Organizer 5: Steven Vosloo, UNICEF
Organizer 6: Roy Saurabh, UNESCO
Speaker 1: Shigemi Satoshi, Private Sector, Asia-Pacific Group
Speaker 2: Athanasios Mitrou Georgiou (Student)
Speaker 3: Amisa Rashid Ahmed, Civil Society, African Group
Speaker 4: Steven Vosloo
Speaker 5: Ariadni Gklotsou (Student)
Athanasios Mirtou Georgiou (Student, The Netherlands)
Vicky Charisi, Technical Community, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Vicky Charisi, Technical Community, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Roundtable
Duration (minutes): 90
Format description: This session will rely on the interaction of different stakeholders (Private sector, Civil Society, Intergovernmental Institution, Youth and Technical Universities) for the development of Responsible AI for children's Global Citizenship Education. As such, we will first aim to have a short introduction by the moderator and individual presentations from our speakers. This will require about 1 hour. However, we aim to invite the speakers to an interactive panel discussion with interaction with audience. For this reason, we will need 90 minutes. The room layout should accommodate minimum 100 attendees. Based on our last year's experience, our workshop received great attendance of more than 100 attendees. We will need a large projector to display videos from our case studies with school around the world (the list of schools can be found at the following link https://mypersonalrobots.org/pilot)
A. How can policy recommendations for AI and Children be embedded in industry strategies and translated into concrete technical recommendations for AI products for children that protect children’s privacy, safety, cyber-security, inclusion and non-discrimination and promote peace, development and sustainability? B. How can we ensure children’s inclusion in AI-mediated Global Citizenship Education for the whole cycle of product design, development, implementation, and evaluation? C. How can governments and intergovernmental institutions support a transparent interaction between policy, industry, and civil society and ensure accountability?
What will participants gain from attending this session? Participants will have the chance to see a use-case scenario [https://tinyurl.com/4v2sw7c7] on AI-Mediated Global Citizenship Education with a working AI system developed based on UNICEF’s Policy Guidance on AI and Child’s Rights and piloted with various schools. Specifically, participants will see the following: - A tangible example (the Haru robot https://tinyurl.com/bzs6x8xn) of the implementation of policy recommendations; - Methods for collaboration between different stakeholders (UNICEF - Industry - European Commission - Academia, Schools and children’s Hospitals) - How to apply the lessons learned so far in their own work; - How we translated ethical principles for AI systems to technical requirements; - Lessons learned about the methods for including children from different parts of the world, including remote areas with little technological readiness; - Insights from a practitioner and a young participant and the impact of the process on the educational goals.
Description:
The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) places children in a changing environment with new applications (social robots and generative AI) impacting their online and offline lives. Our workshop takes a multistakeholder approach to present our work on the development of AI for children’s Global Citizenship Education (GCE) as a means to enhance global collaboration, peace, emphathy between people and sustainability for current and future societies. We present AI-mediated GCE use cases based on the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, UNESCO’s GCE frameworks and the work of the Ban Ki-moon Centre. First, we discuss the opportunities AI brings for GCE. Many children face challenges such as social injustice and violence. Speakers will describe how AI policies contribute to the design, development and evaluation of AI to empower children and their communities with a commitment to support them to become responsible global citizens. We have invited the President of the HONDA Research Institute, Japan who will elaborate on AI systems and our corresponding studies that bring students from 15 different countries together in safe online environments with a pluralistic perspective for AI. We include schools in Africa and Global South and the participation of a high-school student to present children’s perspectives. Secondly, we will focus on the current challenges AI brings for children’s rights, including online safety, privacy, non-discrimination, mental health and algorithmic fairness and the urgency for equity in infrastructure and teachers’ training. One of our speakers will present the current challenges and practices in Kenya while our last speaker, as a member of the UN GS AI Advisory Body will elaborate on how children’s needs have been taken into account for the UN work on AI Governance. The session will conclude with the participation of the audience, a reflection and the presentation of our next steps.
After the end of the workshop we aim to publish a report authored and edited by the organizing committee with the description of the session, an initial description of our case studies on AI-mediate Global Citizenship Education, and a focus on the three Policy Questions about the role of each stakeholder on the development of responsible AI, children’s inclusion, and the role of intergovernmental institutions for the transparent interaction among different stakeholders. We also aim to include short inputs written by the invited speakers and to consolidate the notes of the rapporteur and the issues that will be raised during the discussion. We aim to disseminate this report among industry, policy institutions, academia, and schools.
Hybrid Format: - We aim to ensure a balanced experience of online and in-person participation. Organizers and invited speakers will join in a combinatory scheme of online and onsite participation. - We will have two moderators, one online and one in person, who will have an internal communication channel for the coordination between the online and onsite coordinator. Two of the speakers will be onsite and two online with three of the organizers onsite. We plan that both online and onsite moderators interact with participants that attend online and onsite. - We are planning to use the facilities and tools provided by the Forum. In addition, we aim to conduct short polls among the participants with the use of Slido.com for which both onsite and online participants will participate online. We will have a screen where online participants will be visible to the room of the session.