Beyond Technicality: Multidisciplinary AI Governance for Real-World Impact
20 Feb 202610:30 AM – 11:30 AMBharat Mandapam, L1 Meeting Room No. 9
Speakers
Dame Wendy Hall, Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton
James (Kayliang) Ong, Artificial Intelligence International Institute (AIII)
Jeanna Matthews, Association of Computing Machinery
Jibu Elias, Independent
John Harvard, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Merve Hickok, Center for AI & Digital Policy, AIethicist.org
Neha Kumar, School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech
Quentin Lambert, UN ODET
Sara Hooker, Adaption Labs
Virginia Dignum, Association of Computing Machinery
Yannis Ioannidis, Association of Computing Machinery
This interactive roundtable broadens the AI safety conversation by foregrounding societal, institutional, and ethical dimensions beyond purely technical approaches. It treats AI governance as a multidisciplinary, context-aware challenge rooted in real deployment settings and community experience. Through brief interventions and guided discussion, participants will identify shared priorities and co-develop principles and collaboration areas to embed interdisciplinary expertise, civil society voices, and context-sensitive evaluation into national and global AI policy frameworks.