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Feb 15 2024

OECD Futures Expert Group

WPF’s Executive Director will be attending the OECD Expert Group Meeting on AI Futures, to be held virtually and at OECD headquarters 15 February 2024. Dixon was appointed to the group in 2023. More about the AI Futures Group here.

Feb 08 2024

WPF Keynote at World Cannes AI Festival: Global Policy Responses to Advanced AI

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will be presenting a keynote speech at the World Artificial Intelligence Cannes Festival in Cannes, France. The speech, Global Policy Responses to Advanced AI: Key trends and takeaways, will provide rich and ground-truthed examples of global AI policies directly from field research across the world that Dixon has personally conducted.

Jan 18 2024

WPF makes statement regarding health privacy at FTC Commission Meeting

What: FTC Open Commission Meeting When: 18 January 2024, 8 am Pacific, 11 am Eastern Where: Virtual Recording: https://kvgo.com/ftc/FTC-Open-Commission-Meeting-Jan-18-2024

Jan 18 2024

WPF hosting tutorial on Privacy in Computer Vision Systems at IEEE/WACV Conference

January 4-8, 2024 Organized by World Privacy Forum WPF has organized a robust and interactive tutorial on advanced AI governance and privacy for Computer Vision systems (and beyond), to be held at the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). WACV is the premier international computer vision event comprised of a main conference

Dec 08 2023

WPF’s Pam Dixon Keynote: Global policy responses to advanced AI, at the AI Engineering Innovation Summit 2023, Bangkok Thailand

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will give a keynote speech on global AI policy and governance at the AI Engineering Innovation Summit, 2023, to be held in Bangkok Thailand. This is a high-level national summit, with CMKL University and Carnegie Mellon University, and the Thailand Ministry of Higher Education Science, Research and Innovation which is

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.