Shaping the AI Future: Ethical and Inclusive AI Governance for Youth and All (CSocD64 Side Event).
This side event explores ethical and inclusive AI governance to address AI-enabled risks affecting youth safety, well-being, and rights, and to advance practical, youth-centered solutions through multilateral cooperation. Digital transformation has become integral to advancing social development and social justice, accelerating progress toward the 2030 Agenda and the commitments made in the Copenhagen Declaration of the 1995 World Social Summit. However, as highlighted in the Doha Political Declaration, uneven technological advancements between and within countries are reversing hard-won development gains and deepening inequalities, underscoring the need for coordinated, equitable, and inclusive approaches that ensure no one is left behind. Objectives Protecting Youth Dignity and Rights in Artificial Intelligence-Driven Environments This session will examine how AI-driven environments affect the dignity, rights, and autonomy of youth, who are often early adopters of new technologies ...