CDAC Network 348d ago

As part of The Alan Turing Institute’s AI UK Fringe in March 2024, CDAC Network hosted an event at London’s Frontline Club to ask: ‘Do we need a humanitarian manifesto for AI?’ The keynote speech was delivered by Dr Abeba Birhane, an Ethiopian-born cognitive scientist featured in the TIME100 Most Influential People in AI. Currently a Senior Advisor in AI Accountability at Mozilla Foundation and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, Birhane also serves on the United Nations Secretary-General’s AI Advisory Body and the newly convened AI Advisory Council in Ireland. In a speech that explores the cultural biases, power imbalances and ethical risks embedded in the current design and deployment of AI, Birhane concludes that, for an AI solution to genuinely serve social good, it ‘must be built, controlled, and owned by indigenous peoples, to serve the needs of indigenous peoples, in a manner that is informed by and grounded in indigenous epistemologies, experiences and needs’.