2024 conference recap

Over 600 AI governance professionals gathered in Brussels to hear about the challenges and risks AI presents. Several Big Tech presidents and a slew of thought leaders in AI governance shared their insights and perspectives with delegates.

They talked about how, in light of the potential magnitude of these risks, companies behind this technology cannot work in a vacuum and how passage of the EU AI Act, the G7 guiding principles on AI, and the U.N.’s AI resolution are helping to create a global “regulatory floor” but passage of regulations is only the first step in the process. Worldwide regulatory collaboration is needed along with cooperation on the domestic and international level to enable privacy and AI governance to work in partnership, reducing the risk of fragmentation in AI policies.

Much discussion was focused on the world’s first comprehensive AI governance regulatory framework, the EU AI Act and whether it can become the standard for AI governance like the GDPR became for privacy. Due to the complexity of the framework, it will take a lot of work by oversight officials to ensure the new regulation’s success.

It was pointed out that while many countries have national strategies, some view governance through an ethics and human rights lens, while others see it through an economic lens and it is critically important that these two segments work together. Similarly, there is a divide in how companies are investing in AI development vs. AI safety, further emphasizing the need for global cooperation as it is difficult for government legislators to keep up with the breakneck speed of innovation.

To learn more about AI governance and best practices to make certain it is deployed ethically and responsibly, click the link below to access the AI Governance Global 2024 presentations that were provided by the speakers.

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Keynote speakers

Matt Brittin

President, EMEA, Google

Matt Brittin focuses on Google’s opportunity and responsibility to harness technology for good, helping people, communities, companies and countries make the most of innovation.

Brad Smith

Vice Chair and President, Microsoft

Brad Smith spearheads Microsoft's work in representing a wide variety of critical issues at the intersection of technology and society, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, privacy, environmental sustainability, human rights, digital safety, immigration, philanthropy, and products and business for non-profit customers.

Dragoş Tudorache

Member of the European Parliament, Vice President of the Renew Europe Group, LIBE Rapporteur on the AI Act

As the LIBE rapporteur on the EU AI Act, Tudorache led the groundwork for the passage of the landmark regulation that sets a global standard on AI.

Shannon Vallor

Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh Futures Institute, The University of Edinburgh

In her forthcoming book, “The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking,” Professor Vallor draws on a decade of expertise in the ethical design and use of AI to challenge the dominant narrative of AI supremacy, and give us ways to think about AI that reinvigorate our sense of human agency and possibility.

Keynote conversation

Nick Clegg

President, Global Affairs, Meta

Alexandra Reeve Givens

President & CEO, Center for Democracy & Technology

Following almost two decades of work in public service, Nick Clegg now leads Meta on all matters of global policy while helping the public at large understand the breadth and scope of metaverse technology.

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