Launch of the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (AI) between the OECD Global Parliamentary Network and EPRS/STOA

Anthony Gooch, Director for Public Affairs and Communications, OECD
Eva Kaili, Member of the European Parliament (Greece); Chair of the European Parliament Panel for the Future of Science & Technology (STOA)

Session 1 - Update on AI trends

Introductory remarks:
Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD

Update on OECD work on AI

Andrew Wyckoff, Director for Science, Technology, and Innovation, OECD 
Dewey Murdick, ONE.AI, Director of Data Science - Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

• See the presentation by Andrew Wyckoff (PDF)
• See the presentation by Dewey Murdick (PDF)
• OECD AI Policy Observatory
• A first look at the OECD’s Framework for the Classification of AI Systems, designed to give policymakers clarity
  
  

Q&A

Break

Session 2 - What have we learnt from COVID-19 about our relation with technology? What has the virus made urgent about AI?

Introductory remarks:
Nozha Boujemaa, ONE AI, Chief Science & Innovation Officer, Median Technologies; Founder of DATAIA Institut (Inria); Vice Chair of AI High Level Expert Group (AI HLEG) of the European Commission in charge of "Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI"

• See the presentation by Nozha Boujemaa (PDF)
  
• Watch the video: How AI optimises clinical trials for the COVID-19 vaccine

Discussants:
Andrew Bayly, Member of Parliament, New Zealand
Cristian Busoi, Member of the European Parliament (Romania)
Alessandro Fusacchia, Member of Parliament, Italy
Alexandra Geese, Member of the European Parliament, Germany
Mari Holopainen, Member of Parliament, Finland
Selin Sayek Böke, Member of Parliament, Turkey; Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Axel Voss, Member of the European Parliament (Germany)

Q&A

Session 3 - Parliamentary Panel: legislative learning space

Exchange on concrete initiatives taken in parliaments from around the world 

Moderator: Eva Kaili, Member of the European Parliament (Greece); Chair of the European Parliament Panel for the Future of Science & Technology (STOA)

Discussants:
Marianne Amir Azer, Member of Parliament, Egypt; Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean
Deborah Bergamini, Member of Parliament, Italy; Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Eduardo Bismarck, Member of Parliament, Brazil
Mario Brandenburg, Member of Parliament, Germany 
Ibán García del Blanco, Member of the European Parliament

• European Parliament resolutions on ethics, liability and intellectual property rights in the context of AI (October 2020): Parliament leads the way on first set of EU rules for Artificial Intelligence

Guido Girardi, Member of Parliament, Chile 
Christine Hennion, Member of Parliament, France, Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly Working Group on AI
Rick Larsen, Congressman, United States
Maris Lauri, Member of Parliament, Estonia
Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Member of the European Parliament (Portugal)

• Watch the video: Audrey Plonk, Head of Digital Economy Policy at the OECD, discusses AI and the privacy implications of tracking + tracing COVID-19
  
• More reading on the work of the European Parliament on AI

Q&A

Report from rapporteur(s), Next steps & Conclusion

Lord Clement-Jones, Member of the House of Lords, UK
Anthony Gooch, Chair OECD Global Parliamentary Network