Responsible AI Working Group Report

At Summit 2020, the Working Group committed to focus on developing enabling environments for AI technologies to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals and other key objectives. It decided to create five internal committees: 1. The Committee on Drug Discovery & Open Science (linked to SDG 3: Good health and wellbeing) 2. The Committee on Climate Change and Biodiversity Preservation (SDG 13: Climate action) 3. The Committee on AI & Education (SDG 4: Quality education) 4. The Committee on Governance & Transparency of Social Media (SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions) 5. A Transversal Committee on Issues and Means of Governance (that could work on the certification, assessment and audit mechanisms used to evaluate AI systems) Following a process of ideation and engagement with GPAI’s Steering Committee and Council, the Working Group prioritised two projects in 2021, with a third (Drug Discovery and Open Science) being taken forward in collaboration with the AI and Pandemic Response Subgroup: 1. A Responsible AI Strategy for the Environment: the selection of this project recognises that the combined fight against climate change and preservation of biodiversity represents one of the most pressing challenges humanity is facing. All GPAI Member countries have put this at the top of their agenda and have taken strong commitments, especially through the Paris Agreement signed in 2015. As a response, this project aims to develop a global responsible AI adoption strategy for climate action and biodiversity preservation. The project committee (fully listed under Annex 1) is co-led by Raja Chatila and Nico Miailhe, and has collaborated with the Centre for AI and Climate Change and Climate Change AI. 2. Responsible AI for Social Media Governance: The selection of this project reflects a growing consensus that governments should review the effectiveness of current regulations on the influence of social media platforms on the dynamics of public discourse, so these processes are undertaken democratically and systematically, rather than solely by private companies. It responds to growing concerns about the level of misuse which can be harmful and serve to propagate disinformation, extremism, violence and many forms of harassment and abuse. The aim of the project is therefore to identify a set of technical and democratic methods that governments could adopt to safely ask a set of agreed questions and measurements about the effects of social media recommender systems. The GPAI project committee (fully listed under Annex 1) is co-led by Alistair Knott, Dino Pedreschi, and Kate Hannah, in collaboration with the Universities of Otago and Auckland. It builds upon the Christchurch Call (a commitment by Governments and tech companies to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online), with New Zealand as the first case study for the project.