Events | World Privacy Forum

Nov 15 2023

WPF’s Kate Kaye to speak on AI at the University of Edinburgh

World Privacy Forum Deputy Director Kate Kaye will speak this month at the Technomoral Conversations: The Geopolitics of AI event at the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute. In addition to discussing national AI governance and strategy, Kate and other panelists will address data privacy and other ethical considerations of AI including environmental and labor impacts.

Nov 15 2023

WHO Health Data Collaborative Meeting

WPF Executive Director will be meeting with other members of the WHO HDC collaborative. WPF co-chairs the Research, Academic, and Technical Constituency of the WHO HDC. What: WHO When: 16 November 2023 Where: virtual

Nov 15 2023

OECD Expert Group on AI Futures: presentation on future risks in AI

The OECD Expert Group on AI Futures will meet Friday 10 November in Paris, France to discuss three future scenarios regarding AI Risk. WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon is a member of the AI Futures group, and has been invited to present a synopsis of her views on key risks regarding AI. The OECD will

Oct 30 2023

WPF attending White House Briefing on AI

The World Privacy Forum will be attending the White House Briefing on AI Monday 30 October. We will publish a post with our analysis of the new Executive Order. What: White House Briefing on AI When: Monday 30 October 2023, 10 am Eastern Where: Webinar, invitation only

Oct 05 2023

Second informal workshop of AIGO small group regarding definition of an AI System

What: AIGO subgroup informal workshop regarding the definition of an AI system. Location: Paris, France and virtual Date: 6 October 2023, 15:00 – 18:00 CET In person participation: Chateau de la Muette at the OECD headquarters (2 rue Andre Pascal –Room D in the Chateau) from 15:00 to 18:00, followed by a networking reception at

New Report: Risky Analysis: Assessing and Improving AI Governance Tools

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new WPF report, “Risky Analysis: Assessing and Improving AI Governance Tools.” This report sets out a definition of AI governance tools, documents why and how these tools are critically important for trustworthy AI, and where these tools are around the world. The report also documents problems in some AI governance tools themselves, and suggests pathways to improve AI governance tools and create an evaluative environment to measure their effectiveness. AI systems should not be deployed without simultaneously evaluating the potential adverse impacts of such systems and mitigating their risks, and most of the world agrees about the need to take precautions against the threats posed. The specific tools and techniques that exist to evaluate and measure AI systems for their inclusiveness, fairness, explainability, privacy, safety and other trustworthiness issues — called in the report collectively AI governance tools – can improve such issues. While some AI governance tools provide reassurance to the public and to regulators, the tools too often lack meaningful oversight and quality assessments. Incomplete or ineffective AI governance tools can create a false sense of confidence, cause unintended problems, and generally undermine the promise of AI systems. The report contains rich background details, use cases, potential solutions to the problems discussed in the report, and a global index of AI Governance Tools.
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Report: From the Filing Cabinet to the Cloud: Updating the Privacy Act of 1974

This comprehensive report and proposed bill text is focused on the Privacy Act of 1974, an important and early Federal privacy law that applies to the government sector and some contractors. The Privacy Act was written for the 1970s information era -- an era that was characterized by the use of mainframe computers and filing cabinets. Today's digital information era looks much different than the '70s: smart phones are smarter than the old mainframes, and documents are now routinely digitized and stored and perhaps even analyzed in the cloud, among many other changes. The report focuses on why the Privacy Act needs an update that will bring it into this century, and how that could look and work. This work was written by Robert Gellman, and informed by a two-year multi-stakeholder process.