ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND DISINFORMATION: CHALLENGES AND RISKS FOR DEMOCRACYROUND TABLEOrganised by the PACE Interparliamentary Cooperation and Project Support Division in cooperation with the Latvian Delegation to the PACE

Date/time: Friday 26 May 2023 from 16 h 30-18 h 00

Venue: The Small Guild/Mazā Ģilde, Amatu Street 5, Riga, Latvia (Meeting room: Great Hall)

Background: ■ Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a determining factor for the future of humanity. It offers bothopportunities and challenges including with regard to information and disinformation. AI generated disinformation and fake news, present serious risks and challenges for human rights, democracy andsecurity. It is therefore of utmost importance to strike the right balance between mitigating the risks and making full use of the advantages offered by AI.■ The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe strongly advocated for a regulatoryframework for AI, based on the protection of human rights, democracy and the rule of law and called for the Council of Europe to take the lead to draft a legally binding instrument which would ensurethat AI-based technologies are used to enhance, and not to damage, democracy. ■ The Round Table will aim to:► raise visibility of the Council of Europe and the Parliamentary Assembly work and standards

on artificial intelligence, freedom of expression and disinformation; ► contribute to the on-going work by the Council of Europe Committee on Artificial Intelli-

gence to elaborate a framework Convention on the development, design and application of artificial intelligence;

► facilitate discussions and networking with stakeholders and define take-away actions to make progress in this regard.

Speakers: Opening session:► Tiny Kox, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)► Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica, Chairperson of Latvian delegation to PACE

Thematic interventions:► Gundars Bergmanis-Korāts, Principal Scientist, NATO Strategic Communications Centre

of Excellence in Riga ► Gregor Strojin, Vice-Chair, Council of Europe Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI)► Kaspars Kauliņš, International Business Development Director, Tilde

Discussion Conclusions: Louise Barton, Director, Human Dignity and Sustainable Development, PACEModerator: Jānis Kārkliņš, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Latvia to the Council of Europe

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