Governing AI Together: Rights, Risk and Multistakeholder Leadership
On 12 October at 17:00 CEST, we will have the pleasure of hosting a conversation with Elonnai Hickok, Managing Director of the Global Network Initiative, on how multistakeholder approaches can help shape AI governance while addressing questions of risk, accountability, privacy and freedom of expression.
Elonnai works at the intersection of digital rights, emerging technologies and international policy. As Managing Director of the Global Network Initiative, she works to strengthen a multistakeholder organisation bringing together different actors around the advancement of freedom of expression and privacy. Her work has addressed privacy, cybersecurity, surveillance, intermediary liability and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence.
The session, “Governing AI Together: Rights, Risk and Multistakeholder Leadership,” is part of AI, Society and Systems at the Edge of Change, a webinar series exploring how AI is transforming sectors, systems and institutions, and how we can make use of its potential while developing the governance needed to manage its risks.
We will explore what effective multistakeholder AI governance can look like in practice, how risk assessments can help identify broader societal impacts, how governments can address safety and cybersecurity concerns while protecting privacy and freedom of expression, and what lessons from company-level and national governance approaches could help inform the development of international AI governance.
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The webinar is brought to you in collaboration with the Young AI Leaders | Madrid Hub, Young AI Leaders | Mexico City Hub, Young AI Leaders | Geneva Hub, Young AI Leaders | Bogota Hub, CIeS e-Health Innovation Center, EHFF European Health Futures Forum, MAP-AI — Multistakeholder Approaches to Participation in AI Governance, Centre for Communication Governance (CCG), National Law University Delhi, Global Network Initiative, Global Shapers Madrid Hub and TheTowerofInnovation.
About Elonnai Hickok
Elonnai Hickok is Managing Director of the Global Network Initiative, where she works to strengthen and grow a multistakeholder organisation focused on advancing freedom of expression and privacy.
She has contributed to international policy initiatives and presented around the world on digital rights, emerging technologies and the balance between governmental interests and individual rights. Her research and writing have addressed privacy, cybersecurity, surveillance, intermediary liability and artificial intelligence.
Elonnai currently co-chairs the Freedom Online Coalition Advisory Network and serves as a member of the GIFCT Independent Advisory Committee and the Christchurch Call Advisory Network. She was previously a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Chief Operating Officer of the Centre for Internet & Society in India. She graduated from the University of Toronto, where she studied international development and political science