Description du projet
Aligner l’IA, la culture et la participation civique
Les nouvelles technologies comme l’intelligence artificielle (IA) et les mégadonnées peuvent renforcer les communautés et favoriser l’intégration sociale, l’autonomie individuelle et la confiance dans les institutions et les instruments technologiques. Comment s’en assurer? Comment la démocratie et la participation civique répondent-elles à l’évolution rapide des technologies de la connaissance? Quel est le rôle des valeurs et des normes dans cette interaction complexe? Le projet KT4D, financé par l’UE, abordera ces questions. Plus précisément, il développera des outils, des lignes directrices et une plateforme numérique pour étudier comment ces technologies de la connaissance pourraient favoriser une participation civique plus inclusive dans la démocratie, et comment protéger les individus et les institutions contre leur utilisation abusive. Les résultats seront validés à travers des scénarios de besoins des utilisateurs, qui tiendront compte des coûts sociaux et de ceux des droits fondamentaux de l’IA et des mégadonnées.
Objectif
AI and big data are fundamentally interwoven into our societies, culture and indeed into our expectations and conceptions of democratic governance and exchange. They can also, however, contribute to an environment for citizens that is distinctly anti-democratic. KT4D will harness the benefits of an understanding of these as knowledge technologies to foster more inclusive civic participation in democracy. To achieve this, we will develop and validate tools, guidelines and a Digital Democracy Lab demonstrators platform. These results will be validated across three user needs scenarios: 1) building capacity for citizens and citizen-facing Civil Society Organisations (CSOs); 2) creating regulatory tools and services for Policy and CSOs; and 3) improving awareness of how to design ethically and mindfully for democracy principles in academic and industrial software development. Our work is underpinned by the understanding that to fully address the social and fundamental rights costs of AI and big data, we need more than just technological fixes, we need more than just technological fixes, we need to address the underlying cultural influences and barriers. Most importantly, we understand the threats to democracy of AI and big data not only through the nature of what they do, but via the cultural disruptions they create with power dynamics they shift, their tendency toward opacity, and the speed at which they change. KT4D’s ambitious and disruptive results will drive transformation in how democracy and civic participation are facilitated in the face of rapidly changing knowledge technologies, enabling actors across society to capitalise on the many benefits these technologies can bring in terms of community empowerment, social integration, individual agency, and trust in both institutions and technological instruments, while confidently mitigating potential ethical, legal and cultural risks.
Champ scientifique
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencebig data
- social sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systemsdemocracy
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware development
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
D02 CX56 DUBLIN 2
Irlande