AI Ethics and Government

Impact: Societal, Cultural

Description of impact

*Impact* (for REF 2028)oCitation and direct discussion of my work in European Parliament think-tank behind proposed AI Act and other EU law (European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS, 2021)oCitation and direct discussion of my work in UNICEF’s global Policy guidance on AI for children (2021)oWith Vian Bakir and Andrew McStay, publication of the Inquiry into the Impact of Social Media on Elections & Electoral Administration, conducted by the Electoral Matters Committee, Parliament of Victoria, Australia. Our research fed into nine of the Inquiry’s 70 Findings, and two out of the Inquiry’s 33 Recommendations (2021).oI contributed sessions to a course ‘Children’s Rights and Technology in the Digital Age’ for the Global Campus on Human Rights. Fellow lecturers include Edward Snowden, President of the Freedom of the Press Foundation and Right Livelihood Laureate; Joe Cannataci, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy; and Mary Jo Madda, Google.oIn 2021 the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child adopted General Comment 25 on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment I lead a submission that highlighted need to recognise that profiling of children’s emotional life is profoundly problematic. Sections 17, 63 and 64 of General Comment 25 seem to have taken this onboard. (We were the only submission to focus on emotions).
*Engagement*•IEEE P7014 membership (2017 – ongoing).•2021 Roundtables on DCMS Data Reform Consultation (CDEI)•2021 Digital Futures Commission (On beneficial uses of education data)•2021 North Wales Police (AI Governance Board)
MCSTAY, A., ROSNER, G., MIYASHITA, H. AND URQUHART, L. (2020) COMMENT ON CHILDREN’S RIGHTS IN RELATION TO EMOTIONAL AI AND THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT FOR UN COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XVBKQKQkbv4FiBDT-eSBM3VqNiv63B_b/view
Vian Bakir's contributions to SSRC-ESRC workshop on Trust in Democratic Institutions, to set the research and policy agenda in this area for UK and US research councils. Feb-March 2022: (Her reflections piece on 'Manipulating Trust: what do we know about the circulation of false and affective information and what should be done about it?' draws wholly from Bakir & McStay's (2002) book, Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehood.

Beneficiaries and reach of impact

Society/the public; Government(s); Business, research councils, international policymaking bodies

General Notes

Potential Impact Case Study REF2028
Impact statusOngoing
Category of impactSocietal, Cultural
Impact levelBenefit

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