Council of Europe and Artificial Intelligence
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High-level Conference: Governing the Game Changer – Impacts of artificial intelligence development on Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law
Conference co-organised by the Finnish Presidency of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers and the Council of Europe
26 – 27 February 2019
Helsinki, Finland
Organised around the three main pillars that constitute the Council of Europe core values, human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, panel discussions will address the challenges and opportunities of AI development for individuals, for societies, and for the viability of our legal and institutional frameworks, and will explore options for ensuring that effective mechanisms of democratic oversight are in place.
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Council of Europe and AI
Artificial intelligence and human rights
Artificial intelligence (AI) will revolutionise the way we live. In fields such as medicine, communications and transport new opportunities abound. But the consequences of AI’s advance for democracy, human rights and the rule of law are still unclear. As the late Stephen Hawking warned, the risks of unregulated AI are unprecedented. I have therefore set up a taskforce, drawn from across the Council of Europe,to assess both the threats and opportunities of AI for human rights. This website will enable you to follow our work and participate.
Thorbjørn Jagland
Secretary General of the Council of Europe
@TJagland
How to regulate the development of artificial intelligence?
Artificial intelligence (AI) will have an impact on our societies that we hardly imagine. Algorithms are already said to be able to identify the best candidates for a job, assist doctors to establish medical diagnoses or help lawyers before the courts. All this is not entirely new, since already in the 1980s, expert systems assisted humans with a high level of expertise. What is new today is that computers are increasingly able to perform extremely complex tasks independently, but their designers sometimes no longer understand how, what has happened in the "black box" of deep learning.
Jan Kleijssen, Director
Information Society and Action against Crime
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