Workshop

The Data Ethics of Generative AI for Public Administration

Wednesday 23 October 10.30

Organizer: Frej K. Thomsen, Danish National Centre for Ethics

The rapid rollout of sophisticated generative AI (GenAI) is arguably the most influential development within artificial intelligence of the past decade. In Denmark, a combination of world-leading public sector digitalization and government digital strategy encourage swift adoption of GenAI solutions in public administration. However, public authority decisions often affect the rights and interests of citizens, which makes GenAI in public administration a potentially high-risk use-case. The Danish Dataethics Council is investigating the dataethical challenges of GenAI in these situations, including model opacity, the risk of bias and output errors and hallucinations in order to provide recommendations on the ethical use of GenAI in public administration. The workshop aims to bring together technical, policy and ethics stakeholders to discuss the challenges and potential solutions.

 

Program


GenAI in Danish public administration – experiences from a use case
Public sector partner (TBA) 10min

Dataethical challenges and opportunities – key points from the preliminary analysis of the Danish Dataethics Council
Members of the Danish Data Ethics Council (TBA) 20min

Workshopping challenges and solutions
Group discussions (30 min)

Facilitators:

  • Frej Thomsen, Chief consultant, Ph.D., National Centre for Ethics
  • Francisca Nordfalk, Senior Consultant, Ph.D., National Centre for Ethics

Insights and discussion

Workshop participants and panel with public sector partner and members of the Data Ethics Council, chaired by National Center for Ethics staff (30min)

 

Organizers
  • Frej Klem Thomsen, Ph.D., Chief Consultant, National Centre for Ethics (Lead organizer)
  • Peter Damm, Director Applied Intelligence, Milestone Systems
  • Eva Flyvholm, Politician, MP 2015-2022
  • Rikke Frank Jørgensen, Head of Research, Danish Institute for Human Rights
  • Anette Høyrup, Senior Management Consultant, Implement
  • Sofie Ozanne, Senior Consultant, National Centre for Ethics

 

Level

Introductory. The session hopes to foster an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas.