Digging deeper: Work, safety, law and democracy

08:30 – 09:30

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09:30 – 11:00

AI and the future of work

Drawing on the latest, multidisciplinary research, this session will explore how innovation and the world of work can advance together, making AI work for the many. We will also explore how AI will change the skills needed over the next decade.

• Panel: Making the Future Work
  Moderated by Anne-Marie Imafiedon ‍
• Fireside: Anna Thomas and Chloe Smith MP‍
• Panel: Bridging the AI Skills Gap
  Moderated by Samuel Hanes

11:00 – 11:30

Break

11:30 – 12:00

Building an AI safety culture - Auditorium

This session will explore two questions. How can the AI community learn from engineering to create a culture focused on safety? And what implications do different approaches to open-source AI development have for safety?

• Panel: How to engineer responsible AI
  Moderated by Dr Hayaatun Sillem
  Speakers: Katerina Spranger, Professor John McDermid, Rashik Parmar
  

Lifting the lid on AI in the workplace - Elliot room

This session will explore how AI is transforming the world of Human Resource Management. Panellists will discuss how ethical frameworks can guide the adoption of AI in sensitive areas of the workplace like HR and the challenges implicit in this, and how AI is helping manage the shift to a skills-based economy, facilitate improved productivity and a focus on more interesting, rewarding and valuable work.

• Panel: Lifting the lid on AI in the workplace
  Moderated by Charlotte Pickles
  Speakers: Andrea Berlin, Richard Doherty, Sue Daley, Ashleigh Ainsley, Anthony Lui

12:00 – 12:30

Striking the balance: Open Source in AI

This fireside chat will explore the intricate interplay between open-source development and generative AI. The conversation, between experts from GitHub and OpenUK, will look at the impact open-source has had on accelerating the pace of generative AI research, the benefits and risks of open-source generative AI models, and what some possible questions surrounding liability and safety might mean in practice.‍

• Fireside: Peter Cihon and Amanda Brock

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30–15:00

AI & Law

For AI to realise the greatest good to the greatest number of people, it must be as fair and unbiased as possible. This session will include a conversation with an expert panel on how those biases arise, how they can be mitigated and what role lawmakers should consider in ensuring fair AI. Leaders from each of the UK regulators who form the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum - the CMA, Ofcom, the ICO and the FCA - will then discuss their cooperative initiatives in digital regulation. 

• Panel: AI, fairness, bias and law
  Moderated by Herbert Swaniker‍
• Panel: View from the UK’s Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum
  Moderated by Jonathan Kewley

15:00 – 15:30

Break

15:30 – 16:30

AI and the information ecosystem: safeguarding democratic institutions and processes

A panel on AI, misinformation and democracy, with high profile speakers from civil society, academia and industry exploring the evidence of how AI can risk destabilising information ecosystems and democratic processes, as well as the active work to address and solve these risks with technical solutions.

• Panel: Elections, misinformation, democracy
  Moderated by Lord Ed Vaizey
• Keynote: Gabriela Ramos