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Report from our Global Civic Debate on Governing the Rise of Artificial Intelligence

September 26, 2018

The Future Society coordinated an unprecedented 7-month civic consultation open to the public to better understand the rise, dynamics and consequences of AI (www.aicivicdebate.org). Engineered through the online collective intelligence platform Assembly and over 20 global events, we assembled a diverse community of over 2,000 participants from around the world, with over 3,300 contributions in five languages (English, Chinese, French, Japanese and Russian), to garner novel perspectives on the governance of AI. The report was released at the European Parliament on September 2018.

The full report and executive summary are available in English here: 

The Future Society – Global Civic Debate Report

The Future Society – Global Civic Debate Executive Summary – English

Given the diversity of contributions to this Global Civic Debate, we have also translated the executive summary in 4 other languages:

The Future Society – Global Civic Debate Executive Summary – Chinese

The Future Society – Global Civic Debate Executive Summary – French

The Future Society – Global Civic Debate Executive Summary – Japanese

The Future Society – Global Civic Debate Executive Summary – Russian

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