The minute decisions, measurements and methods embedded inside the tools used to govern AI systems directly affect whether policy implementations actually align with policy goals. The government of Chile’s experience using its AI bidding template, and questions inside the agency regarding how to weigh traditional tech procurement criteria such as vendor cost along with newer responsible AI criteria like discriminatory impacts, give a glimpse of the AI governance challenges happening on the ground today. The tensions the Chilean government is dealing with may be a sign of what other organizations around the world could encounter as they put their own responsible AI policies into practice and navigate the policy implications of AI-facilitated decision making.

A roster of events, speeches, and courses that World Privacy Forum is engaging in.

Video and blog post by WPF Founder and Executive Director Pam Dixon commemorating International ID Day 2024, discussing the importance of ensuring legal identity for all people, and the equal importance of ensuring that identity systems and ecosystems Do no Harm and are built so they cannot do harm now, nor in the future.

Our first series of WPF’s Privacy on the Ground podcast illuminates an important-yet-underexplored body of scholarly work and practice with profound implications for privacy: Indigenous Data Sovereignty. The Indigenous leaders spotlighted in these talks illuminate what Indigenous data protection really means at the ground level, and why it matters in relation to privacy. With host Kate Kaye.

It is my great pleasure to introduce our new podcast, Privacy on the Ground. This podcast is about all of the things World Privacy Forum has been researching, writing about and working on for more than 20 years, but in a format for today’s audiences. Our groundbreaking work on data governance, data protection, privacy, and complex technologies and ecosystems is often concentrated in dense reports that can take years to research and produce. Our podcasts enable us to bring the compelling people, stories, places, news, and ideas we find in the course of our work to the public faster and in an episodic format that allows us to highlight the richness and depth of the people, stories, trends, and ideas you won’t find anywhere else.