Artificial Intelligence permeates our lives, in our homes, workplaces, finance, and health systems, offering immense productivity potential alongside risks of misuse and bias. Social media connects us but our information environments are rife with misinformation fueling distrust. Big data could unlock answers to some of life’s most stubborn conundrums, yet poor privacy allows data exploitation. Public services and jobs are digitally transforming, but many sectors and households lack digital resources and skills.
Technology is now so intertwined with society that you can’t see it in isolation; it is changing the world around it.
Meanwhile Big Tech and technocratic bodies make decisions with profound societal consequences.
We envision a future in which people are placed at the heart of these decision-making processes to ensure technology is built with and for all people, not done to them. It is a future in which politicians, technical experts, diverse stakeholders, and citizens collaboratively partner to build bridges and tackle the most challenging issues in tech.
Only through cooperation can we achieve Trustworthy Technology – serving and respecting needs and values of all people, not a select few.
We are working to tackle the quality and inclusivity of our digital information environments, to promote the democratisation of technological development, use, and benefits, to put people at the heart of complex AI governance decisions, and to imagine a future in which technology is built for the good of democracy.
Contact Director of Digital Policy, Elizabeth Seger, to hear more.
