Greetings from Kristiansand, Norway, and the Techpoint 2024 conference. This event highlighted one of Europe’s strengths in AI development: a value-based approach in AI development and leadership.
Solja Sulkunen, 15.10.2024
As we embrace digital transformation, it’s crucial to align our efforts with core values such as ethics, transparency, inclusivity, and safety. Technology and digital transformation should ultimately serve people and enhance their quality of life by respecting human values and rights.
The Techpoint 2024 conference in Norway featured a day full of inspirational speakers, ranging from tech giants to AI startups, researchers, and politicians. The event showcased a commitment to a digital future that respects human values, fosters innovation, and ensures inclusivity. Two approaches to value-based AI usage emerged more prominently than others – national commitment and how businesses can ensure ethical use of AI. FAIR’s project manager Solja Sulkunen will shed light on the topic for us now.
Norway is eager to increase its digital readiness by ensuring access to high-speed broadband for everyone, while maintaining personal privacy of the users, and enabling effective data utilization and leveraging AI for both public sector and business advancements. The focus is on data sharing and nurturing trust. Norway aims to enable the provisioning, sharing, and utilization of data among public organizations, individuals, and companies. Trust is built through continuous dialogue and an inclusive approach to leading change. Norway has set an impressive goal to have 80% of its public sector utilizing AI in a relatively short time span. However, public sector digitalization cannot proceed without collaboration with the private sector, particularly in areas like health data sharing, for example. Also shared values should be agreed upon to ensure commitment and alignment.
National commitment and support are crucial in driving innovation. However, it is as important to ensure that the solution providers, too, commit to use AI for good, and are transparent and inclusive in their operations. Quite many of the basic service design methodologies in solution development apply also here. Below you can find recommendations for businesses to better adapt the value-based approach into their work:
By setting high ambitions and embracing collaboration and the value-based approach in AI development and utilization, Europe is ready to take the lead in the digital era. If you want to be part of the wave of digitalization in Europe and you want to discuss more about the opportunitites of AI and take action in it’s deployment, do not hesitate to contact FAIR through registering your company to our ecosystem, and we will be in touch with you.
FAIR offers several services that help small and medium size companies develop value-based AI-products. For example, you can enhance your AI solutions with FAIR EDIH’s service “Human-AI Interaction Testing”. Gain valuable insights and optimize your user experience, for example from here Experiments and testbeds – Finnish AI Region.
That’s a wrap from Norway this time – stay tuned for the next tech-news splash across Europe!
Solja Sulkunen, Project Manager FAIR
Finnish AI Region
2022-2025.
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