As AI presents technical and engineering innovations, the systems present fundamental risks to people, their families, and their communities. Public participation in AI will not be easy. But there are foundational lessons to apply from other domains. Author and legal scholar Michele Gilman’s latest policy brief, Democratizing AI: Principles for Meaningful Public Participation, builds on a comprehensive review of evidence from public participation efforts in anti-poverty programs and environmental policy and summarizes evidence-based recommendations for how to better structure public participation processes for AI.

To discuss the brief, Gilman will be joined by Harini Suresh, assistant professor of computer science at Brown University; and Richard Wingfield, director of technology and human rights at BSR. The conversation will be moderated by D&S Participatory Methods Researcher Meg Young and Policy Director Brian Chen.

Speakers:

• Michele Gilman, Venable Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law

• Harini Suresh, postdoc at Cornell University and incoming assistant professor of computer science at Brown University

• Richard Wingfield, director of technology and human rights at BSR