đź“… 30 January 2024
Paris, France
The dramatic advances in artificial intelligence (AI) offer unprecedented opportunities in many fields, such as medicine, education, industry, and services. In the context of development assistance, AI could have the potential to accelerate achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across all AFD Group sectors.
On the occasion of the European Data Protection Day, the AFD group is organizing a conference on the theme «Artificial intelligence, regulation, and human rights: cross-reflections» around the reflections and the challenges of controlling and regulating AI to ensure the respect of human rights.
This is why the AFD Group is currently working on a strategic framework for artificial intelligence, which should lead to positioning in the evolving AI landscape, with a particular focus on promoting sustainable development and the accessibility of these technologies to developing countries in a regulated and controlled manner.
AFD is committed to promoting and protecting human rights in its operational policies, notably through its “100% social link” strategy, its commitment to gender equality between women and men, and its action to contribute to the political and citizen transition.
The regulation and control of AI is a crucial issue since its deployment in our societies is accompanied by many concerns regarding human rights. While AI can promote better living conditions, it at the same time poses many human rights challenges, such as the right to the protection of personal data and privacy, freedom of opinion, or access to equal and non-discriminatory treatment. AI also represents a major challenge to the possibility of opinion manipulation in democratic processes.
The conference will address, through concrete use cases, the issues of bias and transparency, the reuse of data for AI training, the possibility of deploying AI according to the model of digital commons as well as the issues of acceptability and AI literacy of governments and civil society. The speakers will present different approaches to regulating AI in the European and African context as well as the ongoing reflections regarding a strategic IA framework for the AFD.
