 Good morning. Bon dia. Buenos dias. It's great to have you all here again This is the start of day two of our event on AI and inclusion just a quick quick reminders About our our events especially for those who are not here with us at the start of the events So these events is on record. So make sure that you remember that when you make your comments When you make our comments during the the sessions make sure that those comments are Direct quick and that you state your name before you make the comments Since the event is on record and there is photo and filming being done There is a special area for those who don't want to be on camera That's on the way back off the auditorium. Make sure that you used it If you if you need it, but I think those are more my practical details of today today It's a very different day from day one So day one was all about plenary sessions and us having a discussion here in the auditorium today We will use the museum quite a lot and we are having the breakouts to discuss specific topics doing some deep dive and some of Issues and of course we have a second round of our beloved animal oriented cluster sessions In in the afternoon, but this time with a more complex challenge So make sure that you're up for it in a good spirit by mid-afternoon so we will begin with a quick recap recap what happened on day one and Some introduction on the global network of internet and society research centers And for that being the moderator of this first session I would like to to ask my my dear dear friend earth gasser from Brookman Klein Center to to to come to the stage to to have this first session. So first, please Thank you very much. Good morning everyone. How are you? Good. Yeah, ready kind of Totally ready always ready good It's a real pleasure to be here bright and early. I know I know but we'll get through a great day that will energize us So I was hoping to do three things quickly first Say a few words about the global network of internet and society Centres being aware that some of you are deeply familiar with that network, but others not since we opened up this event also To guests who are not part of the network. So say a few words about that second as Carlos introduced it to capture a few Highlights from yesterday As a kind of a first attempt to bring some themes together And I'm sure Malavika and her panel will then also continue the conversation And later on in the breakout we will link back to some of these themes and then finally turn over to Becca for a few words and Instructions about the cluster group meetings. So Let me just give a brief overview. So by the way, who represents an internet and society center of some sort or think tank in the room Well, great. Okay, that's critical mass So the global network of internet and society center started actually Five years ago. So happy anniversary network of centers to all of you guys with a symposium that we hosted in Boston and The idea was very much To bring together not only individuals who think deeply about the impact of digital technology and society But really builds institutional capacity around the globe The motivation behind that I want to be very honest about it is twofold on the one hand side, we all know we live in a truly globally interconnected world and many of the policy debates many of the big Questions about the future of society and technology like the one we're having here today, of course is global in its DNA But if you look at the question who can actually participate and who has a voice in these global debates It's largely either powerful governments or powerful companies civil society and then Academia I think are still catching up to build the global capacity that is necessary to Participate in meaningful ways in these global debates. We have made a much progress Thanks to all of us over the past few years But particularly for academia to find a voice in these global conversations. That was one of the driving forces and The second one also more closely related To to the academic work Although the network also includes centers that are more think tanks and not based at universities is We need more evidence-based Decision-making right so many of the topics we're talking about of course run the risk that they produce bad headlines The killer robots will come and take over the world, right? And that's What may make it into the newspapers that may shape the public perception and the perception of policy makers So how can we as a community provide? evidence or at least better More accurate more grounded information for decision-makers both in the private and public sectors so these two factors led to this birth of a network building institutional capacity we started with eight centers and Today, I'm happy to report that we are over 80 centers around the world So for many of you representing centers, this may be the first event actually It's also worth pointing out that in the meantime we even started to build regional hops including the one in Asia Digital Asia hop let by my wonderful colleague and friend Maloica, but also recently led by another wonderful friend and colleague Wolfgang who's somewhere over there now in Europe Starting to bolster the collaboration and strengthen the collaboration regionally. Of course, you see we have much work to do We have a good representation, but at the same time the African continent is still You know largely Not represented in the network So I'm particularly thrilled that for today's event We have actually a strong group of colleagues and friends from Sub-Saharan Africa joining us And I hope we can work together as individuals, but then maybe down the road as as institutions to strengthen This network and make it more diverse and more inclusive. So so thank you particularly to the African colleagues for making this trip We will have a network of centers discussion tomorrow afternoon Well, we will talk more about the roadmap the work that is ahead We will link it back to this conversation about AI, but of course AI is only one of the many topics whether it's issues around Encryption and our surveillance or hate speech on the internet There's so many issues where the network can play a role and we'll talk more about that tomorrow afternoon How do we prioritize and where are the opportunities for us to collaborate? All right quick recap second point Thanks much to Elena. Where is she? Elena is there She was working till three o'clock in the morning to compile these slides So what I'm doing is like slight karaoke, you know, I sing two slides that she made Till late in the night. So thank you Elena for the summary. I think it's really good It's highlighting a few points The first couple of points that that we distilled from yesterday Can be grouped or clustered around conceptual issues I think one of the themes that emerged yesterday was really this question of how do we deconstruct AI and Inclusion is it AI and or versus beyonds also including inclusion, you know, what's the relationship between the two and Unself led us off. I think with a very powerful slide with four circles that Suggested four key dimensions of of the interplay between AI and inclusion and they won't repeat that These are just kind of mental links back Nishant of course in his keynote then Reminded us that we have to or urged us I should say that we should be moved beyond computer and computation to the lift realities of the computed and actually Think more of a mutual common core between AI and inclusion We sent it quite quickly around this question Do we even need to have a new vocabulary as we as we think about what was previously Called inclusion in the age of AI. So that's an open ongoing discussion also for today. We also touched upon the question of Education and and and supporting policies or policies that are actually Making existing gaps widening We then had another Really important point. I thought in the discussion with this shift potential shift as a hypothesis Are we move we should we move from a from a view on inclusion towards? self-determination particularly in the light of some of the Imperialist Western values embedded in AI the questions of power the burden we placed on the underrepresented Communities to actually perform inclusion. We had a few very powerful narratives and I think got a sense over all of the urgency of this debate as the technology is progressing so Quickly and is rolled out into society Well, we are still catching up to have these normative and value conversations as a society as a global Community, so I think these were some of the the threats of discussion coming out with respect to the conceptual throughout these debates of course Given where we are and the commitment of this event. We had a very strong Lens or perspective and looking at these issues from the perspective of the global south, but also Underrepresented populations more generally There was one line like that that in some Parts in some regions of the world. There is still a lot of excitement and that's also great I would say as as AI is kind of making it into into the regions We heard from Kenya and India an overall very positive view on on the use of AI and its Implications, but the question came up in that context. Well, how can we actually have a more balanced discussion? In these cases, it's also about bringing in some of the challenges to the conversation And I may add in other parts of the world It may be the other way around where we talk so much about the challenges But forget to talk about the opportunities and as Ronald and Carlos mentioned yesterday Of course also during this event. We want to keep both in mind We also talked about Binaries and whether or not good and bad AI are actually the right categories to have a Conversation or whether we have to move beyond such dichotomies. We heard interesting examples from South Korea We also looked at corporate practices briefly in an exchange during the plenary and and the discussion about Palantir and and some of the hard questions that arise at this intersection between public interest organizations and private technology companies providers, so Ultimately many of these points cumulating in the question what are actually Mechanisms and and new new designs that we can implement to hold Those who have power as they shape as some of us shape with industry in the room The future of AI and also the future of who participates in society Now, of course, it was more about Introducing big questions is about already answering all of them. We will answer all of them today naturally, right? Hopefully some of them and so here are a bunch of open questions How do we Incorporate the perspectives of those who cannot participate in AI and development Obviously a key one. I just mentioned the oversight mechanisms The broader question can we even is it even worthwhile and to what degree to think about technical solutions to societal problems? clearly came up when we were talking about bias and the question of amplification of existing biases through AI and Also the question of Should we take some sort of an individualistic approach as to what extent is it about the individual and It's autonomy versus kind of bigger ecosystem questions and how do we bring these Perspectives like Luma and Habermars for the Germans among us. How do we bring these two perspectives together? So these are a few quick points. I was particularly excited throughout the discussion that we also identified a number of action items Here are a few we talked about The potential of an AI interoperability framework as I'm interoperability freak. I have to mention that We also had a very interesting Proposal by mark and I hope we can talk more about it about the formation of connected Cooperatives for machine learning training data and several other suggestions and I hope we can continue to collect such examples And also use cases and case studies Here are a few listed. We want to collect more both in terms. How can AI be used? To address some of the challenges previously known as inclusion challenges But also where are some of the bad examples and what can we learn from it? We will have a session today at 430 where we continue the This study of use cases from different regions and I would love to use the network to create some sort of a Repository of good and bad cases and what can we learn from it? So these are a few quick remarks from my side again, thanks to Elena for compiling Some of these notes. We will share a report Right up of these conversations together with all the inputs you you helped to produce Thanks for that again. We were amazed last night to see the Number of inputs we received from you on sticky notes and cards really really helpful So keep going please with these inputs Speaking of which we'll have to do more work today. Now. This will switch around as we said it will be peer-produced We will have lots of working groups after one more plenary And we will do cluster meetings and the cluster meetings are a little bit more complicated today So Becca will briefly describe what the plan is as as we will Have the cluster meetings later on but not much opportunity to have everyone in the room and explain how it works So over to you back and thank you again so much. This is we're off to good start. Thank you Thank you or so I have props in my hand because today's cluster groups Are to invoke creativity and you get to create some flip books with one another So currently the time is from 315 to 4 we will have our second cluster group meetings You will be going directly from breakouts to the cluster group meetings So following the afternoon breakout you will meet re back in the foyer and people will be holding up The animals again, so you'll refine this team. It will be the same team as yesterday You'll go back to the space you were in yesterday and the goal of the breakout is to create a collab two sets of flip books Each will involve five cards that tell a little bit of a story of a challenge and an opportunity that you've identified As a group so before I tell a little bit of details about that Levin Kim I don't know where you are. She's been driving so much of what's happening today huge props to Levin Can we see a video of the flip books from a previous event? So this is from an event that we held in Cambridge digitally connected And so the teams also were were implored to create challenges and opportunities And so across five cards they created a little bit of a story You can see the numbers in the corners for some of them So it sounds very scary to say I'm gonna create a flip book out of five cards But it can be a set of five words or set of five images one that lead to another that your groups will identify so When you first meet together as the break or the cluster group We ask you to sort of share a little bit of feedback from the cluster group that preceded it and to use that as A time and a space to share your ideas about a challenge or an opportunity that you might collectively illustrate in the flip books And because you have to create both a challenge and an opportunity We suggest maybe your team break into two teams one Responsible for doing the cluster one responsible for doing the opportunity. You'll have two folders each of which have Five cards in them. There are some pens in there You can use some of the materials that were in the Wonderbags if you wish you can design them In any other way And so we hope that it's a creative exercise in a way to create something fun at the end of this that aren't just words on a page Though those are very important and fun too, but a little bit more life in these flip books So that will be today It's from 315 to 4 at 4 o'clock. We had it into a break until 430 where we will then Reassemble but you can take into the break to keep working on this assignment of the flip books If you wish and when you're done with them at 430 you'll take the two folders and you'll bring them to the info desk There will be baskets for you to deposit them. So There we go. That's with that and so thank you so much and I'm gonna hand it back so we can keep moving