IGF 2018 WS #11 AI Ethics: privacy, transparency and knowledge construction
Format:
Panel - 90 Min
Theme:
Emerging Technologies
Subtheme:
INTERNET ETHICS
Organizer 1:
Yik Chan Chin
, Xi'an Jiao-tong Liverpool University
Organizer 2:
Ansgar Koene
, University of Nottingham
Organizer 3:
Kuo Wu
, APNIC
Organizer 4:
Yang SHEN
, School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University
Speaker 1:
Yik Chan Chin
, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
Speaker 2:
Ansgar Koene
, Civil Society, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 3:
Yeseul Kim
, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
Speaker 4:
Changfeng Chen
, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
Speaker 5:
Lina Chen
, Private Sector, Asia-Pacific Group
Additional Speakers:
Mr. Jasper Wang, Deputy Editor of Sina Weibo, Editor-in-chief of Weibo Think Tank in China. Mr. Wang has 10 years of working experience in news business, social media and Journalism industry. With the special passion towards Internet industry, he moved to the Weibo after working in government's education department.  He researches into the areas of information dissemination and user governance in social media platform, development model of social and public opinion, the ecological pattern of we-media. Depend on Weibo's more than 200 million active user data per day, the Weibo think tank he manages is committed to working with universities and overseas academic institutions to research the evolution of social media, media convergence and development.
Dr. Félicien Vallet,  a privacy technologist at the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), the French data protection authority. His missions are to analyze technical systems and study the challenges they raise on a privacy and data protection standpoint in order to elaborate CNIL’s position on these issues. While working closely with legal experts of the CNIL, he regularly meets with professionals to help them design their systems in accordance with data protection requirements. He also participates in the works of several groups of data protection authorities such as the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) or the International Working Group on Data Protection and Telecommunications (IWGDPT) in order to develop international standards for data protection. He holds engineering and doctoral degrees in Computer Science from Télécom ParisTech (obtained in 2007 and 2011 respectively).
Mr. Yuqiang Chen,  the co-founder and chief research scientist of the 4th Paradigm, which is a AI start-up company in China. He received his bachelor and master degrees from the CS department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He was major in machine learning, and his main research interests include transfer learning, large-scale machine learning and deep learning.  Mr. Chen had serval papers published in NIPS, AAAI, SIGKDD, ACL, and one of his work was reported by MIT Technology Review in 2011. Mr. Chen worked in Baidu, which is the largest search engine company in China and deployed online the first deep learning system for commercial advertising use, which consists of a large model of billions of raw features as input.  He worked in Toutiao, which is a leading mobile new feeds company in China,  helping to build up one of the largest ML systems in the world.  Later, with Wenyuan Dai and others, Mr. Yuqiang Chen co-founded“the 4th Paradigm”- an AI development platform that enables enterprises to build their own AI applications in various settings such as finance, telecommunication and Internet applications, and thereby significantly increase their operation's efficiency.
Mr. Jake Lucchi, Head of AI, Public Policy, Google Asia Pacific. Jake Lucchi leads Google’s policy work on AI, among other areas, for the Asia Pacific region. In this role, he works with government, academia, industry and civil society to build an ecosystem in which AI can be leveraged to achieve economic and social benefit around the region through promoting the positive development and application of AI, while also establishing strong governance frameworks. He also works to amplify the voice of APAC on AI governance and adoption in various global fora. In addition to AI, Jake also leads Google’s work managing content for the region.Prior to joining Google he worked on a range of law and policy issues for the United Nations, INGOs and as a consultant for the Thai government, for which he helped redesign the migrant labor regulatory scheme to prevent human trafficking. Originally from the US, he has lived full time in the APAC region since 2010 and speaks fluent Thai and intermediate Spanish. He holds a
juris doctorate
(law) from Yale University and a BA,
summa cum laude,
in politics and philosophy from University of Missouri. He is based in Hong Kong.
Relevance:
This panel will be addressing the issues of how to apply or create policy, regulatory model, frameworks and best practices to tackle the ethical issues arising from the application of artificial intelligence in different sectors and societies to achieve the dual objectives of protecting people's rights and beneficial uses of artificial intelligence to contribute to social good. The ethical issues will be discussed in this panel include transparency, accountability, diversity, privacy protection, information filtering, privacy-preserving machine learning, and ethical norms. We will highlight perspectives from different national and organizational cultures through experience of local and global institutions and private companies such as Chinas leading social media company - Sina Weibo, AI start-up - the 4th Paradigm, Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), the French data protection authority; the global Internet company- Google; the global professional association-IEEE, and academic researchers. Audiences and online participants will be invited to contribute during Q&A following each opening statement from the panel, and again during the discussion segment, which will comprise more than half of the session.
Session Content:
The panel includes six speakers from China, UK, France and USA, and one onsite moderator and one online moderator. Speakers are Dr. Yik Chan Chin/Professor Chen Chengfeng, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and Tsinghua University, China;  Dr. Ansgar Koene, University of Nottingham, UK, working group chair for IEEE Standard for Algorithm Bias Considerations, Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, UK; Mr. Jasper Wang, Deputy Editor of Sina Weibo;  Dr. Félicien Vallet,  a privacy technologist at the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), the French data protection authority;  Mr. Yuqiang Chen,  the co-founder and chief research scientist of the AI start-up, the 4th Paradigm; Mr. Jake Lucchi, Google.  And Dr. Wu Kuo-Wei from APNIC is the onsite moderator. Each speaks will speak for 6 minutes with 1 minute of immediate audience response. It is followed by 10 minutes discussions amongst speakers and 30 minutes questions and answers session, both are moderated by Dr. Wu.
The issues discussed include: Prominent AI related ethical issues in different sectors and societies such as normative frameworks and regulatory models; algorithmic transparency and accountability, diversity, information filtering bubbles, online rumors and post-truth, privacy-preserving machine learning and practices used in dealing with those ethical issues. The panel speakers will also discuss recommendations for improvement
Interventions:
The notion of ethics encompasses socially accepted moral rights, duties and behavioural norms deriving from a culture-specific tradition. Therefore, it is important to consider the role of culture in shaping the AI ethics. In this panel, we have invited speakers from the different culture, profession, gender and geographical location to discuss and share their insights, perspectives, and local/global experiences in terms of AI and related ethical issues and solutions. Each speaker will be given six minutes to present their knowledge and views based on their expertise in dealing with AI, ethics, policy and regulatory issues. The presentations will be followed by one-minute immediate audience response, and ten minutes discussions amongst speakers themselves that will be moderator by onsite moderators. Questions are then invited from both audiences and online participants by two moderators to panel members. The discussion time will be about 40 minutes in order to provide sufficient interactions amongst speakers, audience and online participants.
Diversity:
The organisers of this panel include members from different geographical locations- China, USA and UK, from different stakeholder groups – academia, social media companies, technical sector to reflect the diversities in geography, sectors and culture. The workshop proposer, i.e. Dr. Yik Chan Chin is the first-time IGF proposer. And more than half of the organising team and speakers are first-time IGF organizers and speakers.
Online Participation:
Social Media such as Tweets, Facebook, Wechat and Sina Weibo will be used to report this workshop session and allow for observations to the online community. More importantly, to properly facilitate the online participation, below measures will be adopted: 1) Online attendees will have a separate queue and microphone to their audience questions/comments, which will rotate equally with the several microphones in the room. 2) The panel's onsite moderator will have the online participation session open, and will be in close communication with the trained online moderator, to transmit the questions and answers between the online participants and panel members, and make any adaptations necessary as they arise, etc. 3) The online moderator will be trained in advance, and he will take part in the discussion of the issue and workshop development, and is prepared to manage this responsibility of online moderator.
Discussion Facilitation:
The session will be divided into three sections to utilise the participation and discussions between panel members, onsite and online audiences. In the first section, each speaker will be given six minutes to present their knowledge and views based on their expertise in dealing with AI and its related ethical. Each presentation will be followed by a one-minute immediate response from audiences to increase their participation. In the second section, ten minutes will be allocated for discussions amongst speakers themselves, the onsite moderator will prepare some AI ethical questions for them to answer. In the third section, questions are invited from both onsite audiences and online participants by two moderators to panel members. This section will last for 30 minutes. The discussion time of the whole session will last about 45 minutes, which is the half of its 90 minutes allocated time, in order to provide sufficient interactions amongst speakers, audience, and online participants.
Onsite Moderator:
Dr. Wu, Kuo-Wei
Online Moderator:
Professor Shen, Yang
Rapporteur:
Dr. Yik Chan Chin
Agenda:
Panel Introduction
by Dr. Kuo-wei Wu
Presentations From Six Speakers
Dr. Yik Chan Chin/Prof. Changfeng Chen             XJTL University/Tsinghua University                    AI policies and ethical frameworks
Dr. Ansgar Koene            University of Nottingham                           Governance frameworks for algorithmic transparency and accountability
Mr. Jasper Wang                 Sina Weibo                               The Rumor shredder —Social media platform has a new role in an age of post-truth
Dr. Félicien Vallet            Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL)          How can humans keep the upper hand? Presentation of CNIL's report on the ethical matters raised by artificial intelligence. (link :
https://www.cnil.fr/en/how-can-humans-keep-upper-hand-report-ethical-matters-raised-algorithms-and-artificial-intelligence
)
Mr. Yuqiang Chen                The 4th Paradigm                                                    How will AI serve human better in the future?
Mr. Jake Lucchi                 Head of AI, Public Policy, Google Asia Pacific      Ethical AI at Google
Panel Discussions
Q&A
Session Time:
Tuesday, 13 November, 2018 -
16:40
to
18:10
Room:
Salle VII

