AI & Society 2024: promises and perils in the next EU mandate

Abigail Gilbert is the Co-Director of the Institute for the Future of Work (IFOW). IFOW is a research and development institute with a mission to build a fairer future through better work. She ensures that our research is designed to deliver strategic and impactful change. Before joining IFOW, Gilbert spent a decade in research, across academic, think tank and public sector contexts.

Lindsay Gorman is the Managing Director & Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States’ Technology Program. Her work has focused on US-China technology competition, including AI policy, quantum information, advanced telecommunications, cybersecurity, transatlantic information and democratic responses to autocratic technology interference. Previously, Lindsay served as a senior adviser for the Biden White House, where she crafted and led US technology initiatives and national security strategy. Lindsay currently serves as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Truman National Security Project. She regularly delivers briefs and keynote addresses across the Atlantic on China’s digital technologies and how to build democratic approaches to emerging technologies.

Sam is the co-founder of Who Targets Me, a company that produces software to help people understand how political campaigns use paid advertising to win votes. He also runs Join Together, software which makes it easier for people to join trade unions. Previously, he spent 7 years at Blue State Digital (the agency that helped elect President Obama in 2008 and 2012) as UK Managing Director. He holds a First Class degree in International Relations from LSE and a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Jens-Henrik Jeppesen works as Senior Director for Corporate Affairs for the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) & Asia-Pacific-Japan (APJ) regions at Workday. His work focuses on managing Workday’s relationships with policymakers and engaging on public policy issues affecting Workday across the two regions. As part of his role, Jeppesen also leads Workday’s engagement on AI policy and regulation across EMEA. Throughout his career, he has worked on European and international technology policy in a variety of roles. Previously, Jeppesen managed the European office of the Center for Democracy and Technology and previously led EMEA Government Affairs teams at Intel Corp. and Dell.

El Iza Mohamedou is the Head of the OECD Centre for Skills, which supports countries to achieve better economic and social outcomes by taking a whole-of-government approach and engaging with stakeholders to develop and implement better skills policies. Mohamedou has more than 30 years of international experience working in the field and at headquarters with various international organisations and in the private sector.

Hugues Moussy is the Head of the Intelligence Unit at the European Training Foundation (ETF). With over two decades of experience in international development, he has held roles at UNESCO, the World Bank, and various government institutions, focusing on global education and human capital development. He has extensive field experience across Africa, Central Asia and Europe, leading research, providing policy advice, facilitating capacity-building initiatives, and promoting education reforms. Recent publications include “COVID-19 and the Global Education Emergency: Planning Systems for Recovery and Resilience” (2020), “Medical Topography as an Instrument of Colonial Management in French Algeria 1830–71” (2020), and “Demographic Change and Implications for Education Policy” (2018).

Paul Nemitz is the Principal Adviser on Digital Transition in the Directorate General on Justice and Consumer Policies in the European Commission. His responsibilities cover the triangle between democracy, the rule of law and technology. He was the lead Director for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Whistleblower Protection Directive. Nemitz is a visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Brugges where he teaches AI and data protection law. His latest books are Critical Reflections on Constitutional Democracy in the European Union and its Member States (2019, with S. Garben and I. Govaere), Prinzip Mensch – Macht, Freiheit und Demokratie im Zeitalter der Künstlichen Intelligenz (2020, with Matthias Pfeffer) and The Human Imperative – Power, Freedom and Democracy in the age of Artificial Intelligence (2023, with Matthias Pfeffer). Nemitz lives between Brussels, Rome and Berlin.

Max Reddel is the director of Advanced AI Programme at the International Center for Future Generations. His research and policy initiatives focus on multilateral AI collaboration, institutional design, and geopolitics of advanced AI. With a diverse academic background encompassing AI, policy analysis, sociology, philosophy, and cognitive science, Max offers a transdisciplinary approach, incorporating many different ways of thinking about AI’s possible trajectories and potential impact. Previously, Max was the Lead on Deep Uncertainty at the Odyssean Institute, focusing on societal resilience and modelling and simulation of complex socio-technical systems.

Véronique Schaber currently serves as Deputy Head of the Vocational Training Department at the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth of Luxembourg. Previously, she progressed through various roles, including professor and management positions at Lycée technique des Arts et Métiers where she served as Assistant Director and later Director. Her work focuses on quality development in social work and leadership in vocational training. Schaber is also involved in several boards, including the National Institute for the Development of Continuing Vocational Training (INFPC).