Law Beats Code: Enforcing a Legal Base for a Safe and Human-Centric AI
As we try to understand LLMs and AI in general, navigating its potential benefits and the myriad of security challenges it presents, one fundamental question emerges: What do we, both as individuals and as democratic societies, truly desire? More crucially, how can we collaborate to fortify our digital ecosystems, ensuring they not only realise our aspirations but also safeguard our democratic values, human rights and the integrity of our society? This talk introduces the current political initiative of the Pirate Party Zürich titled „For A Fundamental Right To Digital Integrity”, which seeks to address these core concerns by advocating for a legal framework that not only promotes safety and human-centric AI but also underpins our collective security.
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Monica Amgwerd discusses the interplay between innovation and regulation in AI, emphasizing the need for a legal framework to ensure AI’s safe and human-centric development. She advocates for public participation in this discourse, highlighting the importance of balancing AI’s benefits against its risks. Amgwerd references Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics and introduces the initiative for a fundamental right to digital integrity, focusing on privacy rights in the digital age.
Key facts
- Monica Amgwerd is the General Secretary of the Pirate Party in Zurich and advocates for digital integrity.
- Isaac Asimov's laws of robotics are referenced as a basic but fundamental approach to regulating AI's interaction with humans.
- The initiative for a fundamental right to digital integrity focuses on explicit privacy rights such as the right to be forgotten, the right to an offline life, and the right to protection from data use without consent.
Ideas
- The constant interplay between innovation and regulation in society, especially with rapidly developing technologies like AI.
- The concept of law as a social contract and the importance of public participation in shaping the legal framework surrounding AI.
- The initiative for a fundamental right to digital integrity, aiming to explicate and adapt privacy rights for the digital age.
- The comparison between cybersecurity measures and democratic systems, suggesting that both require constant vigilance and adaptation to protect against threats.
- The role of education and public discourse in ensuring a broad understanding of AI's implications and the ethical considerations it entails.
Keywords
- AI Regulation
- Digital Integrity
- Privacy Rights
- Public Participation
- Isaac Asimov
Quotes
- “At the heart of Regulation lies the question very simply how do we want to live what do we want to do with this technology.”
- “A robot may not injure a human being or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm.”
- “We are attempting something similar as you know I'm the secretary general of the pirate party Zurich and we came up with an Initiative for a fundamental right to digital Integrity.”
- “Every citizen basically is an agent of protection.”
Recommendations
- Engage in public discourse and education about AI and its implications to ensure a broad understanding across all segments of society.
- Support initiatives that aim to establish a legal framework for AI that prioritizes human-centric values and privacy rights.
About the speaker
Monica Amgwerd
Campaign Lead Initiative for Digital Integrity Zurich
Monica Amgwerd serves as the Secretary General of the Pirate Party Zurich.
She has professional experience as a journalist, holds qualifications in film-making and art education.
She is an experienced campaigner, an artist, and a parent to two children.
Monica advocates for a wider and more profound understanding of information ethics within the general public, emphasising the security of democratic systems, and for placing humanist values at the centre of political decision-making.
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