The Artificial Intelligence in Society publication was prepared under the aegis of the OECD Committee for Digital Economy Policy (CDEP), with input from its working parties. CDEP delegates contributed significantly with their comments and amendments, as well as by sharing and reviewing their countries’ national AI strategy.
The core authors of the publication were Karine Perset, Nobuhisa Nishigata and Luis Aranda of the OECD’s Digital Economy Policy Division, with Karine Perset conducting overall editing and co-ordination. Anne Carblanc, Head of the OECD Digital Economy Policy Division; Andrew Wyckoff and Dirk Pilat, respectively Director and Deputy Director for Science, Technology and Innovation, provided leadership and oversight. Parts of the book were researched and drafted by Doaa Abu Elyounes, Gallia Daor, Lawrence Pacewicz, Alistair Nolan, Elettra Ronchi, Carlo Menon, Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze. Guidance, input and comments were provided by experts across the OECD, including Laurent Bernat, Stijn Broecke, Dries Cuijpers, Marie-Agnes Jouanjean, Caroline Paunov, Luke Slawomirski, Mariagrazia Squicciarini, Barbara Ubaldi, Joao Vasconcelos and Jeremy West.
The book benefited from the contributions of Taylor Reynolds and Jonathan Frankle from the MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative; Douglas Frantz, independent consultant; Avi Goldfarb from the University of Toronto; Karen Scott from Princeton University; the OECD’s Trade Union Advisory Committee; Amar Ashar, Ryan Budish, Sandra Cortesi, Finale Doshi-Velez, Mason Kortz and Jessi Whitby, from the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University; Joanna Bryson from the University of Bath; and the members of the AI Group of Experts at the OECD (AIGO). The drafting team wishes in particular to thank Nozha Boujemaa, Marko Grobelnik, James Kurose, Michel Morvan, Carolyn Nguyen, Javier Juárez Mojica and Matt Chensen for their valuable inputs and feedback.
The book also leverages ongoing work streams throughout the OECD. These include work by the Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy and its Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy; the Committee on Consumer Policy and its Working Party on Consumer Product Safety; the Committee on Industry, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and its Working Party on Industrial Analysis; the Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee; the Education Policy Committee; and the e-leaders initiative of the Public Governance Committee and the Competition Committee, in addition to the Committee on Digital Economy Policy and its working parties, notably the Working Party on Security and Privacy in the Digital Economy.
The authors are also grateful to Mark Foss for editing this publication, and to Alice Weber and Angela Gosmann for editorial support. The publication’s overall quality benefited from their engagement.
The support of the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) for this project is gratefully acknowledged.