New Zealand is co-designing regulatory frameworks for AI
“The World Economic Forum is spearheading a multistakeholder, evidence-based policy project in partnership with the Government of New Zealand. The project aims at co-designing actionable governance frameworks for AI regulation. It is structured around three focus areas: 1) obtaining of a social licence for the use of AI through an inclusive national conversation; 2) the development of in-house understanding of AI to produce well-informed policies; and 3) the effective mitigation of risks associated with AI systems to maximize their benefits.”
Reimagining Regulation for the Age of AI – aim to create enabling frameworks that support the operationalization of the ethical use of artificial intelligence.
This is all about how do you create transparency and build trust between humans, robots and the companies controling them?
“New Zealand is the sponsor government for this project. A number of initiatives in New Zealand – such as the government’s Algorithm Assessment Report,13 the Centre for AI and Public Policy, Otago University report, Government Use of
AI in New Zealand, and the AI Forum of New Zealand’s work on AI in the economy and society – have raised the importance of AI and explored opportunities, but the government has not yet developed an AI strategy.”
“AI-powered services are already being applied to create more personalized shopping experiences,1 drive productivity2 and increase farming efficiency. In the future, they will enable the rise of self-driving cars3 and the large-scale access to precision medicine with appropriate data governance.4
AI systems have been able to do so thanks to the exponential growth of human and machine- generated data leveraged by powerful machine learning algorithms,5 whose performance on a given task increases with labelled data.”
“Government officials throughout the world are increasingly aware of both the opportunities and risks associated with AI and urged to act as AI’s influence over society increases at a fast pace. They also acknowledge that some form of AI regulation is needed, with AI systems used by governments an early focus, given the duty of care owed to citizens, particularly as governments make highly consequential decisions supported by AI.”
