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Lilian
Coral
New America VP of Technology & Head of Open Technology Institute
"Rethink AI: Utilizing the Civic Space to Create AI For All"
"Rethink AI: Utilizing the Civic Space to Create AI For All"
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Session: Rethink AI: Utilizing the Civic Space to Create AI For All
Whether or not the civic and public sectors plan for it, AI will be a part of our daily lives. But the AI field should not be a zero-sum game. This emerging technology must be developed for the benefit of people who will use it, and they should have a say in that process.Civic AI is a framework by which artificial intelligence is designed in collaboration with the communities represented by the data on which AI is trained. City governments and local communities have the opportunity to apply this framework to serve the public interest. With civic AI, we can rethink governance, public service delivery, and constituent participation for the better.
Key Takeaways
- We need to nurture imaginative communities of practice which, in turn, will inform policy.
- Government can’t be the primary actor; we need to center communities with the most to lose and gain in the development process.
- We must open up the room - we can’t be in our silos or sector divides of government, universities, think tanks and business innovators and expect decent results.
Bio
Lilian Coral, Head of the Open Technology Institute and Vice President of New America's Technology and Democracy programs, is an experienced leader in technology and social change. She has overseen New America’s work on a broad range of issues at the intersection of technology and democracy at a time at which AI challenges, digital equity, privacy concerns, online free expression, and other key tech policy issues are at the forefront of U.S. public debate. She steers New America’s Technology and Democracy programs toward nurturing a digital future that serves the public interest, advancing technology for the people by the people.Coral has a bachelor’s degree in international studies from the University of California, Irvine and a master’s degree in public policy from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a native of Colombia, a place from where much of her inspiration for innovation and social justice emerged.
