 So welcome everyone, my name is Sandra Cortesi, I'm the Director of the Youth and Media Project at the Bergman Client Center for Internet and Society. I will be the MC for this afternoon, that's why you're seeing me first. I'm the one that is going to try to move us along through the afternoon. My Swiss side in me is going to make sure we hopefully do that on time. So you see it, we start right on time, 1pm. So with that, I would like to welcome Carlos Afonso, the co-director here at the ITS, dear colleague and friend, ITS, the co-hosts of today's symposium over the next three days. More than that, hopefully I don't need to say about Carlos because probably you know most people actually in this room. So welcome Carlos. So thanks Sandra, good afternoon everyone. It's like nothing short of amazing to see you all together here in the same room for us to have those three days for us to discuss issues around AI and inclusion. I couldn't be more happy than that and I think that's going to be certainly a very, very important and fun experience for us in terms of interchange and exchange on topics regarding AI and inclusion. So when I was thinking about like what to say in this morning, I thought like hey, I'm probably going to give you guys like a welcome to the cloudy city of Rio. But it looks like the sun is shining right now, so it looks like I'm entitled to give you warm welcome to our beautiful city of Rio. We're really happy to have you all here. So this is thank you for all of you who have traveled from nearby cities like Belo Horizonte and Sao Paulo. And those of you who have come from far away cities like Seoul, Beijing, Barra da Tijuca. It's great to have you down here with us right in the start of our event. I would like just to say like first and foremost that it's a really, really a pleasure to do this event, to organize this event together with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet Society at Harvard University. It's really a pleasure to organize this event on behalf of the global network of internet and society research centers. And we are really, really glad that you all guys make it for us to have those three days to continue this conversation on AI and inclusion. So let me just say some, I'll be very, very brief, but let me say some thank yous. So I really have to say thank you like first and foremost to our sponsors. And while talking about our sponsors, certainly the ethics and governance of AI fund was fundamental to make this event happen. So generously supported so much of these events. And at the same time, I need to say thank you for the IDRC and to OSF who had done so much to bring you a good chunk of you guys down here to the event as well. So this is just like a big thank you to our sponsors. And of course, to the Museum of Tomorrow as well, because I think you guys have already seen how the Museum of Tomorrow is such a perfect venue for an event like this one to happen to make possible that this exchange of ideas will end up flourishing. So the Museum of Tomorrow has been a great partner in the organization of the events. And just to mention that the director of the Museum of Tomorrow is here with us, Mr. Ricardo Piquet. And it's really, really glad to count on support of Marcella with Alberto in making this event possible. So thanks, big thanks to the Museum. So if I can just very, very briefly go with you about what we have in store for those three days. So today we're having a short session to begin with that will lead us into a plenary session that will help us to get into a common understanding on AI and inclusion. So we're having our two keynotes that will lead us to this conceptual understanding around AI and inclusion. On day two, we're going to do some deep dives and doing some case studies and focusing on topics such as business models, data infrastructure, algorithms and designs. And on day three, we will actually work on action and impact research and see what can we do together out of those three days that we are being here doing this discussion. And just to conclude, let me just tell you this, that when we talk about AI and inclusion, it's really easy for us to think only on the challenges and maybe lose some sides of the opportunities. So it's really important for us to take these events and to take this moment to try to not only overcome the challenges that are put by artificial intelligence, but to also see how can we take the most, how we can take the best of the opportunities and especially focusing on inclusion. Inclusion is a very unique lens that grant us access to a quite different way to understand issues concerning AI. And the fact that we are doing these events in Brazil, it's even better. If you just go across this hall and go to the exhibition venue that you have just across the lounge, you see there is a special exhibition in the museum that talks about innovation in Brazil. And it begins with this word in Tupi Guarani language, which is an indigenous language that says Piaru Açu, which is great news in Tupi Guarani language. And I think it's really remarkable for us to understand that we do not want only to have developing countries importing technologies and importing understandings on AI, but we want them to become protagonists on the agenda and in development of technology and development of AI. So guys, this is just to say that it's a great pleasure to have you all here. If you want to know a little bit more about who Elzin is in the room, because I'm quite not sure if you know everyone around. So take a look in your bag for the program, take a look at the website, aiandinclusionsymposium.com. And there we're trying to see who Elzin is in the room and who else can we include in this conversation. Let us just remind ourselves that those are trying times. And in those times we are here in those three days to discuss some tourney issues. So let's do this exercise to include each other in the conversation to make sure that we have a safe place here for us to take these discussions further. And then again, we're really, really super happy to have you all here. So with that I would like to invite two people on the stage to give some more remarks from you. So first I would like to call Luis Alberto from the Museum of Tomorrow. So Luis, if you can come to the stage. And let me call Felipe Stevan from our Media Art Foundation as well. So Felipe, where are you? Okay, so as we wait for Felipe Luis, if you want to give some introductory remarks. And thanks very much for having us here. Thank you Carlos, very much. Good afternoon to you all. Please be welcome to the Museum of Tomorrow. It's a pleasure to salute your presence here. And also to honor the absence of those who are not here anymore. The indigenous people used to roam the shores. Brazilians before there was Brazil. Caracas before there was the city of Rio. Harbour inhabitants before there was a harbor. Our ancestors of the Tupinambá, Tupiniquim, Tenimino and Tamayo tribes. We are their future. Well, the Museum of Tomorrow is a science museum. In fact, it's an applied science museum. The proposal of the museum is to apply the resources of contemporary sciences to offer to our visitors a journey of exploration of possible future scenarios. So they can reflect upon the actions that we've taken today. And we'll lead to this or that other possible future configuration. In fact, the main philosophical basis of the museum is that tomorrow is not a date in the calendar. Tomorrow is not ready, waiting for us. Tomorrow will be a construction. And we will all take part in this construction as people, as citizens, as members of the human civilization. So we want our visitors to explore this collection of possibilities based on the best science available. And we set up a journey of built upon five great questions that mankind has always asked itself. Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we? Where are we heading to? How do you want to go? Which values do you want to convey to the future? So since from the very beginning of the inception of the museum we came to realize that this sort of experience, we are an experiential museum, cannot be offered without involving this experience into values. So we positively affirm the humanist values of supporting knowledge, freedom, tolerance, and joy. So this is what we actually want to convey to our visitors as they proceed in their exploration of the choices that are open today to build this or that possible future scenario. And in this sense it's very natural, it's congenial for us to receive a sort of symposium joining the foremost frontier of exploring technology, ways of technology change the world, change in our society, and the aspect of inclusion, how we want to change ourselves. Sustainability and conviviality are the ethical guidelines of the museum. How do you want to live with each other? How do you want to live with the world? So we are here, I think, to make another step, a small but a giant leap towards this common future that we all want to build. Thank you very much for being here. So thank you Carlos and Luis Alberto. Since Felipe is not yet here, he's a little bit running late, too much traffic always in Rio. So I'm going to start with the logistics for the day and the coming days and then we see if he arrives by then, otherwise we continue. I promise to keep it short, but it's always the same with big events of this size, there are logistics involved. So bear with me, there are quite a few. Okay, so first and foremost, this event is going to be on the record. Keep in mind when you say things and when you frame things, it's going to be on the record. Second, we're going to take a lot of pictures as always with big events. If you prefer to stay out of pictures, there are two ways of how you can do that. One is we have assigned seats at the top of the room because we're also taking pictures like this, so we had to position it over there. And for your name tag outside in the help desk, I got a special ninja sticker to make sure that we recognize that you prefer not to be on pictures. Okay, number three, as you see, we are coming here from many, many different cultures, cultural backgrounds, lots of accents like mine. So be mindful, respectful with people in the room. Then some ground rules. First, if you get the mic, please be very brief, but please introduce yourself so we get to know each other better. Second, please always be on time. I promise I will remind you today, many, many times. Tomorrow, there are some Brazilian influence in there, so be also on time tomorrow. We are going to do a lot of interactive activities where our aim is to really break this room also up. It's not our preferred setting that it's an auditorium. Usually those who have come to our events know it's a lot of moving and big tables and activities, so be prepared for that. I will in a second also introduce the teal bags you have in front of you. Also, under your seats, if you're not cheating in that row at the top, if you're sitting in one of those, there are outlets. So if you need to charge your phone or your laptop, it's under the seat. Housekeeping rules, bathrooms are outside. Luckily, it's very well signaled. In case of an emergency, there is an infodesk outside. Please don't hesitate to reach out to any one of us if something happens. And then if you have a food emergency, hopefully we will all feed you really well, but there is also a restaurant in case of a food emergency. And then last but not least, I highly recommend you to visit the museum and explore it. The designated time for it would be tomorrow and Friday from 1.15 to 1.45. I think we will keep announcing that, but keep it in mind. Basically, over lunch the next few days, you can also see that and explore the museum. I think that's it, unless Urs thinks I have something else. So he promised he will make me signals if I forgot something. So with that, Philippe probably not here yet. So I will then ask on stage one of my very, very dear colleagues and friends, friend Ronaldo Lemos, also a co-director at ITS. Ronaldo and I are going to start the opening session and we are super, super grateful that almost all of you filled out this survey. Apologies that it was very long. But based on that survey, we have a surprise for you, which I think Ronaldo is going to quickly introduce and then we are going to use some of that information to also start giving you an impression for who is in the room, what kind of initiatives, where are people coming from. So yes. Excellent. So it's really great to have you all here in Brazil. I am Ronaldo Lemos, as you know. I'm one of the directors of ITS, the Institute of Technology and Society, which is one of the hosts of the event. So one of the goals that we have here is actually to get everyone to know each other as best as we can. So in order to make that goal possible, we have run this research beforehand that quite a few of you actually have answered to and we are glad for that. And we would like to show you a little bit of the results of that research so that you can have an idea of who is in the room and who you can expect to meet throughout these days. So also we are going to have a few colleagues here with us as an introductory section. And in this introduction, we would like to show you a little bit of the feel that we want to have throughout the entire event so that we can share as much of our experiences and learn from each other. So do we have it up already? Usually I call it the bubbles magic. Technically it's called dotplot. It's an open access, open source project developed initially by the Berkman Klein Center. You're all welcome to use it for your own conferences to make a little bit of advertisement. Yes? So basically each of one of these dots is one person so you can have a good feel of who is coming from Asia, Europe, Latin America and then Caribbean. Oceania, Northern America, Northern Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. And I think this is really amazing because as you can see this is a very diverse conference and actually I wonder if there are many other conferences that have reached a level of diversity as the one we have. I'm really excited to see this, no? Yes, absolutely. This is really exciting and you can actually click in each one of these dots because that's a person and you can see who the person is. So if you're really curious to see who is the one person from Oceania. I don't know Oceania, who is that? Technically you can click on it. I don't know, we didn't prepare our text and see, it actually works. And so you can click on the person and then you can scroll and see all kinds of contact information for the person and so forth. It's Julian Thomas, by the way. Is he around? Unfortunately, he hasn't arrived from Oceania yet. He hasn't arrived from Oceania yet. But he really wanted to come and what we can see here is obviously a lot of people from Latin America but really a big, big chunk of people that travelled from far to get here. Alright, I think can we scroll down a little bit more? Yep, okay. So this is the primary stakeholder perspective of each organization. As you see, there's a lot of people coming from the academia. This is an academic conference, so that's expected. But it's important because this is also an event that's been organized by the network of centers. So it makes total sense to have the academia here. Right, Sandra? Makes very much sense. I also learned that Felipe is here, so shall we maybe do it after? We do it after, okay. So since we're looking at these thoughts, I also wonder if we scroll up again one second knowing that we have Danit here and starting to pass also the mic to people in the room that are going to share. They promised me that it's going to be no longer than two minutes to share some of their experiences. Danit maybe coming from Asia. A quick introduction would be a great thing. It's really great to meet you. Maybe if you stand up, I think then people can see you almost a little bit. Perfect. I am in Beijing, China. Nice, thank you. And I'm the chair of the Outreach Committee for the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethical Considerations in Intelligent and Autonomous Systems. And this is a new initiative that was established by IEEE, which is very known for its technology standards. And the aim is really to make sure that engineers are educated and empowered and incentivized to prioritize ethical considerations and their design of AI and autonomous systems. And what we've been doing so far is we were trying to get as many people as possible to join because the name says global, but we only had members from North America and the EU. So now we have members in China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, India, Iran, Israel, South America. Now we're teaming up with people in Ethiopia. We have a fantastic group here in Brazil. We have people in Mexico. So we're really trying to breach out and become more inclusive. As for me, this is the most inclusive conference I've been to, so I'm really, really excited about this. Thank you for having me. And so if we slide a little bit further down to the next one. So as Ronaldo said, we have people from all kinds of stakeholder groups here. If we slide to the next one, we see some, and you will have plenty of time to explore this, and I promise to click on all the dots. But we were also wondering, KS, since you're also one of the people that traveled from really, really far. If you wouldn't mind sharing with us maybe some of the digital Asia hub efforts and some of your other efforts in Asia, thank you. My name is KS Park. I'm speaking in place of Maravika Jairam, the executive director of Digital Asia Hub. Digital Asia Hub is an interdisciplinary effort of organizations in Asia and also outside Asia to bring together academia, industry, and in some parts of civil society as well to discuss the effects of technology on the society and especially the Asian society. We had a series of seminars last year starting with Hong Kong, Seoul, and finally Tokyo. In Hong Kong, we had a broad talk about the recent advances made in AI and new philosophical issues and ethical issues raised by the new advances in the technology. We moved to Seoul and we did a deep dive into the ethical issues on AI. We concluded with the Tokyo event where we talked about the economic aspect of AI, how AI is eroding the job market, and at the same time, AI is doing social good for the society. I see today that we'll build on the discussions that we had in Asia and hopefully we will be on incrementally increasing learning curve here with all of us together. Thank you. Thank you so much. One of the key points of this event is that we are going to talk a lot about the problems and the challenges of artificial intelligence but we also want to talk about the opportunities brought by artificial intelligence. So in that sense, I would like to ask Ursula that works from ITU, the International Telecommunications Union, and I believe Ursula, where are you? Okay, excellent. Hi. I believe you have hosted a big event on AI quite recently, right? So can you share a little bit of your experience on that? Sure, I'd be delighted to. Hi, everyone. I'm Ursula Weinhoven. I'm just recently joined ITU as the representative to the United Nations in New York. Really thrilled to be here and really looking forward to the next few days. As you mentioned, this year the ITU together with 20 UN agency partners hosted the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva and I can share some of the relevant themes that kind of came out of it in a few moments. This next year we will have the next one so we hope that as many of you as possible will join us there and continue the discussion around these really key questions of the opportunities as well of course as the risks. So just a few themes that came out of it that I wanted to share. Things such as it was so important to ensure that developing countries including least developed countries can benefit from AI and effectively contribute to the discussions on its future. The fact that marginalization of countries with low technological capabilities is a significant risk. There's concerns about mass unemployment and brain drain but also the desire for populations to have a role as was mentioned in the creation of these technologies not just to be consumers of technologies developed elsewhere. The idea that to benefit from AI vast amounts of data and necessary skills to use it are required. Areas where unfortunately many developing countries currently lag behind and very important also from the ITU's perspective that there can be no mass digitization without universal and affordable access to broadband. So in this context it's really important to remember that there's 3.9 billion people who aren't yet online as little data available on the assets needs and desires of the people who are most in need. And as we know in this conference obviously is looking at if AI is likely to exacerbate existing digital divides based on factors including gender and economic inequalities. So principles of non-discrimination transparency and accountability should be built into the operation of AI. So in terms of some of the starting points as well because I know that was something you wanted us to mention in these 3 minutes to recall that in the Sustainable Development Goals that all 193 member states agreed to at the end of 2015 there are some targets that relate to the ICT area and also some important indicators as well. So we're really keen as well to see how they can also be a good starting point for some of the discussions around issues of artificial intelligence and inclusion and we're particularly interested around the issue of gender equality. So if anyone's working on that I would love to talk with you and see how we can collaborate as well. Thank you. That's great. Thank you so much. Also in addition I would like to hand the microphone to Marqueta. Where are you? Yes. And Marqueta you are with the Canadian Inclusion Lab right? Yes. So what are your perspectives on the opportunities and challenges that we have ahead regarding AI? This is your question. Yes. So the Digital Inclusion Lab is located at Global Affairs Canada so the Canadian Foreign Ministry. We are in the Office of Human Rights, Freedom and Inclusion and so this gives a little bit of a hint that Canada is trying to position itself as a leader and investor on AI but at the same time as a responsible stakeholder in terms of promoting human rights and living up to the obligations and commitments that we have internationally and so that's the biggest challenge that we are trying to counter now and in order to help us we have a range of initiatives including with graduate students to look at three areas in particular gender, hybrid threats and the last one is governance of AI so I will be happy to speak to you during the couple of days about these initiatives if you like. Thank you so much. Maybe let's slide one down and look at some of the key dimensions or manifestations of inclusion that we think we should address and so I was wondering Ezequiel, Ezequiel Pacerón from Faro Digital Argentina also leading some of the conectados as soon efforts I'm biased since we work a lot together but I was wondering if any of these key dimensions maybe resonate with you or are related to some of the work we do or you do? Yes, well, I can see the underserved communities well first Ezequiel Pacerón from Argentina I'm representing Faro Digital and also our LATAM network that is called Conectados al Sur and in Conectados we work with youth especially and that's what we want to talk in this symposium I think that we have a great challenge and great opportunities in order to include youth voices when we are talking about tech and also of artificial intelligence in Conectados al Sur we have three main pillars that is the network building we have also activities and also events or symposiums this year we started some workshops with kids with youth and artificial intelligence we made them in seven countries we started in Chile and in Costa Rica and we are going to present all these results in our next symposium and it's going to be in January in Costa Rica so everybody that is interested in talking about youth and technology just let us know we are going to have a poster in the afternoon so we will be there thank you very much Thank you so much Ezequiel Cecilia, I know you do a lot of super interesting work at the World Economic Forum particularly looking at the economic impact of AI so I was wondering if maybe any of these dimensions resonate with you or if you just wouldn't mind to share a little bit more about some of your work Sure, hi everyone and first of all thank you very much to the organizers for putting together this fantastic symposium my name is Cecilia Baller I'm an economist working on digital economy issues at the World Economic Forum and let me maybe give you a couple of sentences of background of what we do at the World Economic Forum so the forum is a global platform that brings together leaders from the public and private sector and academia and civil society for dialogue and collaboration on a range of issues however over the last couple of years we've really focused all our attention and all our efforts to collectively shape this kind of convergence that we're seeing in terms of digital, biological and physical technologies or what our chairman calls the fourth industrial revolution and one overarching objective of all these efforts is always to think about how we can shape these processes in a way that everybody is benefiting from it and how we can get this objective on the agenda of political leaders as well as CEOs One initiative that I'm involved in personally is trying to contribute to a broader and deeper evidence base on the economic impact of digital and emerging technologies including AI we so we're building a network that has economics at the core but we're also hoping to draw in lots of other disciplines to really break up silos and help with the understanding including technologists but also governance experts, lawyers all the way to the policy makers who will be implementing the policies we've just done a prioritization exercise in terms of what are the what's top of people's minds when it comes to those economic issues of course inclusion always comes up at the top and like related to AI we see specifically concerns about the impact on the labor force so on the one hand the within country inclusion aspects but also the threat of the manufacturing led development model that might threaten global convergence so this is only as far as my work is concerned we're taking a much broader lens of course we're not only looking at economics we also have a work stream that considers how we can include values into the frameworks that we're building and we have we just recently set up our San Francisco Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution which is piloting and experimenting with new governance approaches in this Fourth Industrial Revolution era and yeah I look forward to discussing with all of you Thank you Celia, that's great so I think that gives us a little bit of the example of what we have ahead of us these are some great examples of initiatives and organizations that we have with us today so we do encourage you to meet as many people as you can can we scroll down a little bit so one of the things that I would like to discuss and show to you right now is what are the things that you think we should accomplish with this symposium and it's interesting because exploring opportunities for collaboration and learning about AI from each other and about AI and inclusion is amongst the most important topics that people answered that we expect to achieve in the end of this event so I think that's great because it looks like collaboration is a key value for everyone in the room So, Wolfgang, where are you? Oh, there you are You're actually sitting all in order My Swiss order That's what makes me confused as Brazilian That's why I'm kind of Wow, they're like one after the other So weird But anyway So, Wolfgang, you are one of the key people regarding the organization of the network of centers so I would like to hear your perspective as we are discussing here Thanks very much and the organization is so much Swiss style here that this order does not surprise me It's perfect I'm working with the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin and we just had the opportunity to have a workshop on these issues and to structure the bubble, the European bubbles you could see a little more and creating a hub following our colleagues in Asia and so if Europeans are here in the room representing centers, please don't hesitate to ask me how to work together One of the main outcomes or maybe one atmospheric thing first this conference two weeks ago was the conference with the best vibe with the best energy I ever had in the last years on AI You could see that researchers were really working together and to work on these issues and I think to make use of this energy and I feel it here as well is something we should make use of when we talk about that. The second thing that came up at this conference was that when we talk about AI it's very much about technology of course but it's much more it's about designing decision making procedures for example it's about narratives about technology and how we use it and the pictures we have in mind developers have in mind it's about and that's the participation thing that was here a minute ago, it's about deciding who should be sitting at the table who is affected by that who is actually a stakeholder that should be part of these multi-stakeholder procedures and that is an inclusion that's the two minutes indicator I think I promise it's fun music not yet so that's one of the key things I would say that we talk about what kind of disciplinary cooperation do we need what kind of knowledge production do we need from civil society, from NGOs from the government, from the industry from the academic field to learn how to shape the future in view of AI and make use of the opportunities that's my view in two minutes thanks so much so I think with this we wanted to actually include Felipe Steffen from the Omedia network into this session but since he just arrived maybe Felipe if you don't mind joining us on stage and do a combination of what sparks your interest out of this and give your welcoming remarks that would be fantastic thank you so much and thank you Ronaldo for doing this session with me Alba if you could maybe tweet the link to this tool so people can use it and Elena can help us put it on the website that would be great for living thank you thanks a lot Felipe thank you good afternoon I thought that by arriving late I would be left off the hook from providing my welcome unless bore you sorry I'm finding my place here for just a second my name is Felipe Steffen and I lead Omedia networks efforts in Latin America in the areas of governance citizen engagement media and perhaps most relevant for the conversation that we're having today artificial intelligence and it is a special pleasure to welcome you to this event not only because we work so closely with so many of you and in particular with the organizers and if you could please give a hand to the team that has put this together they really deserve it and special thanks to the ITS Rio team for giving us an excuse to come to Rio de Janeiro which is always very much welcome but the other reason this is a special pleasure for me is because an event of such global relevance is taking place here in my region and the region of many of you Latin America and that is particularly resonant for me because in very many ways Latin America and Rio de Janeiro is one of the examples of that has for far too long suffered the negative effects of exclusion in Latin America we have somewhat managed to be able to reside in a space in which we both move forward by developing cutting edge innovations while leaving very many behind it's like walking on a tightrope I don't know how we do it but both at the cutting edge and seemingly at times being summoned by demons of the past unfortunately that challenge the challenge of being able to both seize an opportunity when we see it and also ensuring that that opportunity benefits not just those who are already empowered it's a challenge that is special for Latin America and the questions that bring us together for a moment I think are very much at the crux of that question that Latin America so often wrestles with and so very many questions as you see from the slides emerge from the conversation that we ought to have in the time that we have together how will we ensure for instance that those vulnerable populations are not considered edge cases but instead are considered priority cases how will we ensure that we work together to defend and define the public interest in changing times how will we ensure that we are setting up ethical standards for questions that we either have never considered before or that we have to consider differently because of the times in which we now live in those questions are incredibly complex and I know that the people in the room understand that very well and that's why their resolution innately must be collaborative there is no way no single organization that can come up with the solutions for these questions and can implement those solutions and that is why I think it is so exciting that we have the space because the space I think is such a privilege for those of us who are working in these issues to explore ways in which we can collaborate in which we can explore ways in which we can make progress in resolving some of these questions that are emerging and in which we can set a clear path of action on how we will move forward and on behalf of Omedia Network I'm very excited to say that we very much look forward to supporting that collaborative action in making progress in an area that is so relevant to Latin America and so relevant all around the world so thank you very much for being here and very much looking forward to the next several days, thank you