Location: hybrid - virtual and in-person at the European Parliament in Brussels
Time: 4pm - 8pm CET | 10am - 2pm EST | 7am - 11am PST
Day 2 | Friday, December 2nd 2022
Location: virtual
Time: 4pm - 8pm CET | 10am - 2pm EST | 7am - 11am PST
The fourth edition of The Athens Roundtable is organized by The Future Society and the European Law Observatory on New Technologies (ELONtech) in partnership with the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. The dialogue transpires under the patronage of H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Ms. Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
Proudly, it is co-hosted by the European Parliament, UNESCO, OECD, Council of Europe, IEEE, Cravath, and Amazon Web Services, and supported by the Jain Family Institute, Arnold & Porter, and Debevoise & Plimpton.
The fourth edition advances and widens the global dialogue on:
trustworthy adoption of AI in conformity with human rights and democratic values;
effective enforcement of, and compliance with, AI laws and regulations;
implementation of AI international normative agreements; and
coordinated efforts for AI measurement and evaluation.
A lot has changed in the world since the 2021 edition, notably the continued growth of AI capabilities and their increasing deployment in societies worldwide. In some cases, such as in the proliferation of profiling and surveillance technologies or in the use of autonomous weapons, these increased rates of deployment have raised alarm for democracies and shared fundamental rights.
There has been a surge of national and international AI governance efforts to set the ‘rules’ for how AI systems are to be developed and deployed. Amongst others, these include the EU AI Act, UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of AI, the Council of Europe’s proposals on legal instruments for AI, the OECD Working Party on AI Governance (AIGO), the U.S. National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's commercial surveillance rule-making proceeding, the Multistakeholder Experts Group of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), and the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council Subgroup on AI.
The fourth edition unpacks the latest AI governance developments, including complementary legal, normative, and compliance governance measures. Bringing together officials and leaders from government, intergovernmental organizations, industry, legal and judicial systems, academia and civil society, it facilitates a participative and action-oriented dialogue on their operationalization for the benefit of humanity.
