Idiap Symposiums Series - Perspectives on AI | AI and Democracy: opportunities and risks
Rue Marconi 19, 1920 Martigny  ·   February 2024  ·   14 Talks  

The recent developments in AI, notably generative AI, have invigorated discussion on the role and impact of AI on democracy. On the one hand, AI is an opportunity to improve democratic processes in our societies, for example AI can help finding sources of misinformation, and help citizens to better understand politics and engage more easily in democratic debate. On the other hand, it raises concerns about AI undermining democracy, precisely because the tool can be used to spread false information and influence public behaviour. In this Perspectives on AI seminar, we aim to bring together academics, industries, NGOs and politicians to discuss the opportunities and risks of AI for democracy.

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• Conference Program

08:28

Opening and introduction
Prof. Lonneke van der Plas, Group Leader at Idiap, Computation, Cognition & Language
Feb. 21, 2024 · 9 a.m.

13:08

Democracy in the Time of AI: The Duty of the Media to Illuminate, Not Obscure
Sara Ibrahim, Online Editor & Journalist for the public service SWI swissinfo.ch, the international unit of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation
Feb. 21, 2024 · 9:15 a.m.

15:38

AI in the federal administration and public trust: the role of the Competence Network for AI
Dr Kerstin Johansson Baker, Head of CNAI Unit, Swiss Federal Statistical Office
Feb. 21, 2024 · 9:30 a.m.

21:10

Automated Fact-checking: an NLP perspective
Prof. Andreas Vlachos, University Cambridge
Feb. 21, 2024 · 9:45 a.m.

12:13

DemoSquare: Democratize democracy with AI
Dr. Victor Kristof, Co-founder & CEO of DemoSquare
Feb. 21, 2024 · 10 a.m.

21:11

Claim verification from visual language on the web
Julian Eisenschlos, AI Research @ Google DeepMind
Feb. 21, 2024 · 11:45 a.m.

19:20

Generative AI and Threats to Democracy: What Political Psychology Can Tell Us
Dr Ashley Thornton, Geneva Graduate Institute
Feb. 21, 2024 · noon

46:43

Morning panel
Feb. 21, 2024 · 12:15 p.m.

18:24

AI and democracy: a legal perspective
Philippe Gilliéron, Attorney-at-Law, Wilhelm Gilliéron avocats
Feb. 21, 2024 · 2:30 p.m.

10:21

Smartvote: the present and future of democracy-supporting tools
Dr. Daniel Schwarz, co-founder Smartvote and leader of Digital Democracy research group at IPST, Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH)
Feb. 21, 2024 · 2:45 p.m.

14:50

Is Democracy ready for the Age of AI?
Dr. Georges Kotrotsios, Technology advisor, and former VP of CSEM
Feb. 21, 2024 · 3 p.m.

16:22

Fantastic hallucinations and how to find them
Dr Andreas Marfurt, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)
Feb. 21, 2024 · 3:15 p.m.

13:52

LOCO and DONALD: topic-matched corpora for studying misinformation language
Dr Alessandro Miani, University of Bristol
Feb. 21, 2024 · 3:30 p.m.

49:56

Afternoon panel
Feb. 21, 2024 · 3:45 p.m.