The Era of AI: harnessing AI for humanity

About the event

With this event, we bring together Renew Europe MEPs, APAs, political advisors, civil society, academia and corporate sector partners to engage in Chatham House discussions on how AI can benefit our societies, economies, and democracies and on the role of the EU in advancing AI over the next mandate.

The first segment will focus on how MEPs can use AI in their daily work and will consist of sessions where experts give insights into safe and bold use of AI tools in the legislative procedure. The second part of the workshop will consist of expert roundtables that will allow MEPs and APAs to have an in-depth discussion on how AI is used in specific fields, including healthcare, sustainability, democracy and human rights.

Please bear in mind that you need accreditation to enter to the European Parliment. If you don’t have a badge arrive 15 minutes in advance to the accreditation center of the European Parliment.

The event is organised by the European Liberal Forum, with support of the Renew Europe Group. The event received financial support from the European Parliament. The sole liability remains with the organiser. The European Parliament is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

Programme

11:00 Opening and welcome

11.05 Introduction to Techno-politics and the era of AI

Speakers: Alva Finn, Executive Director, European Liberal Forum; Antonios Nestoras, Deputy Executive Director, European Liberal Forum  

11:10 Where are we with AI development today?

Speaker: Karen Boers, Managing Director, FARI Institute

11:20 Harnessing AI In Politics

Speaker: Representative of Google

11:50 AI for Participatory Democracy: examples and best practices

Speaker: Representative of GoVocal

12:10 Coffee break

12:25 Rotating expert tables

Table 1: AI for sustainabilityExperts at the table from European Digital SME Alliance, Meta, Google, Interdigital, FORES, FARI Institute, FNF, Vodafone, Green Web Foundation, GREENOMY.
Table 2: AI to revolutionise work and healthExperts at the table from European Digital SME Alliance, FARI Institute, Pfizer, Microsoft, J&J,ENAR, EDF, IBM, Social Platform, TechWolf.
Table 3: AI for open & free societies: democracy, human rights, trade offs, and transparencyExperts at the table from Google, Access Now, EDRI, Future of Life Institute,ICCL, D66 International, FNF, Dreamocracy, LYMEC, VodafoneInstitute, Collibra, Stateless
Table 4: The EU’s role in advancing AI post-EU electionsExperts at the table from AccessNow, ITIF, EDRI, IBM, Google, FNF, Stanford CyberPolicy Centre, Curated AI.

13:50 Wrap-up