Q1/2020 - UNESCO

Expert Group to draft first global standard-setting instrument on ethics of artificial intelligence, Paris, 11 March 2020

On 11 March 2020, UNESCO appointed a 24-head Ad Hoc Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence[1]. In November 2019, UNESCO’s General Conference had decided at its 40th session to elaborate a standard-setting instrument (recommendation on the ethics of artificial  intelligence). The document shall be ready for adoption by the 41st session of the UNESCO’s General Conference in autumn 2021. The commission is composed of both state (Poland, Egypt, United Arab Emirates/UAE) and non-state representatives, including numerous academics from renowned institutes, such as Adrian Weller from the Turing Institute of Cambridge University, Catherine Tessier from the French aerospace research lab, Peter-Paul Verbeek from Twente University, Osamu Sudoh from the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies of Tokyo University and Yi Zeng from the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Another member – and chair – of the UNESCO expert group is Amandeep Singh Gill, who deals with autonomous lethal weapons systems (GGE-LAWS). A first draft of the document is expected to be submitted still in 2020.

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  1. [1] Members of the group are: Carolina Inés AGUERREREGUSCI (Uruguay), Centre for Technology and Society (CETyS), Teki AKUETTEH FALCONER (Ghana), Africa Digital Rights Hub, Latifa Mohammed AL-ABDULKARIM (Saudi Arabia), Computer Science Department, University of Liverpool, Mohamed ALLOGHANI (United Arab Emirates), United Arab Emirates Ministry of Cabinet Affairs, Prime Minister’s Office, Maxim FEDOROV (Russia), Skoltech Center for Computational and Data-Intensive Science and Engineering, Constanza GOMEZ MONT(Mexico), C MINDS, Robert KROPLEWSKI (Poland), Ministery of Digital Affairs, Octavio KULESZ (Argentina), Editorial Teseo, Irena NESTEROVA (Latvia), Institute of Legal Science University of Latvia, Jean Philbert NSENGIMANA (Rwanda), Smart Africa, Luka OMLADIC (Slovenia), Philosophy Department, University of Ljubljana, Julie OWONO ASSEVINI (Cameroon), Internet Sans Frontière, Edson PRESTESE SILVA JUNIOR (Brazil), Informatics Institute, Federal U niversity of Rio Grande do Sul, Golestan (Sally) RADWAN (Egypt), Egyptian Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Fatima ROUMATE (Morocco), Faculty of Law, Economic and Social Sciences Agdal, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Emma RUTTKAMP-BLOEM (South Africa), University of Pretoria, Amandeep SINGH GILL (India), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Osamu SUDOH (Japan), Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies (GSII), University of Tokyo, Catherine TESSIER (France), National Office for Aerospace Studies and Research (ONERA), Peter-Paul VERBEEK (The Netherlands), University of Twente, Adrian WELLER (United Kingdom), Alan Turing Institute, Cambridge University, Sang Wook YI (Republic of Korea), Hanyang University, Yi ZENG(China), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in: https://en.unesco.org/artificial-intelligence/ethics,