AI for good? Platforms, ethics and public value
The UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) invites you to join this discussion on how digitalisation and artificial intelligence can empower public value creation and public purpose in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals.
This talk is the first within the 'Walking the talk: Getting serious about the UN Sustainable Development Goals' event series.
Join IIPP's Founding Director, Prof Mariana Mazzucato as she chairs a panel discussion with, among other speakers, Gabriela Ramos, Assistant Director-General for the Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO, as they discuss how digitalisation and artificial intelligence can empower public value creation and public purpose in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. Followed by questions from the audience.
While digital platforms have created an immense amount of value, they are often used to extract value, create harm, and generate perverse private profits. Since the onset of the pandemic, while businesses went bust and shopkeepers closed shop, Amazon’s market value increased by $650 billion.
To do capitalism differently, we need to discuss how to shape our digital platforms to create public value and public purpose. This session aims to explore how governments can leverage competition and industrial policy to govern platforms with the aim of tackling innovation for the public good.
Follow the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #WalkingTheTalkSDGs.