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huh no still more accustomed to paper home was in the dinosaur
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mister president of the dalai molly foundation this device rector of the university
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of geneva mister director of the it yep institute a ladies and gentlemen
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the participants first of all thank you very much indeed for involving me in this afternoon of celebration
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i would not really like to start by wishing the telly
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molly foundation very happy anniversary half a century is no mean feat
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to be fifty years old is like being between two ages being drawn into the dance of life
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that uh makes one oscillate between being crazy on the one hand and being wise on the other
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in short at the age of fifty anything goes almost almost
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an institution like the dalai molly foundation fifty years is first of all the time
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for a for a stock taking in the form of congratulations what a long way they have come
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from the inception of the foundation back in the early nineteen seventies to the present day and above all
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how relevant the found really founder's vision the vision of
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the founder tell italian industrious angelo deli molly has been
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as an informed observer for was at the time still the infant c. of computing you realise
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very early on the potential of the computer and above all the systemic consequences of it spread
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this let him to say that and i quote scientific progress in general and progress made in computing in particular
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was not in slave humanity but on the country be
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at its service this conviction that technology must serve humanity
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but also the plan it rather than in saving it
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and increasing the imbalances which we all face is highly topical
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and i see x. yes sign in the fact that
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we're celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation in geneva
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and in the same here that we're celebrating fiftieth anniversary of the climate conference held in stockholm
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this is a sign of the special and a home guard role that
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this ecosystem and those who contribute to it such as the deli molly foundation
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can play in the search for innovative solutions to the major challenges of our age
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it is on the specific theme but i would like to share with you some of my thoughts and convictions
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ladies and gentleman we are unquestionably at a crossroads right
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now three social contracts need to be urgently revised and updated
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the contract that humanity has with the planet and its ecological boundaries
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the contract that humanity has with emerging and trance formative technologies including
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artificial intelligence and the one that we have with our fellow human beings
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it's a series of extremely complex challenges but also a number of great opportunities
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and the way in which we we shape our relationship with technology will be
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a key part of that equation because of the cross cutting nature of its impact
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unfortunately it's a fact that all too often cyberspace is used
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to wage war and so division instead of being a tool
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for making the world a better place as angelo deli
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molly called for technology is increasingly being used as a weapon
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as a result of the cover nineteen pandemic kinda worn ukraine
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this information attack some critical infrastructure and online damage and now
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i believe it's true to say kind that makes in their own right
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although technology is never knew troll it can
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be a one the same time i great strength but also an achilles heel for humanity and the planet
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if we are to change this paradigm we have to act quickly among the top
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priority is uh we should have we must better protect online privacy as professor click
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there is a really is strongly advocate advocates on this
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key is you have data protection we must also ensure that
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distract t. g. vision developed by the federal department of foreign
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affairs on digital self determination be realised as soon as possible
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we must also ensure that there is more diversity in
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a digital sphere that is still largely dominated by men
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to bridge the digital divide and ensure that technology serve society
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in an inclusive way i would like to see more women
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and more minorities uh represented in key leadership
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development and regulate three positions finally we need to
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impose stronger codes of conduct for companies and companies operating in the digital world
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and the possible encourage innovation at the service in the service of humanity
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because of its assets in the field of regulation and standardisation but also because of the quality of the research carried out there
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and the excellence of the economic innovation it generates the like geneva region has a unique opportunity
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to play a leading role in the area of digital trust
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but this requires all players they private or public to be exemplary in this area
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it isn't gentleman we need in addition to harness the
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power of technology to accelerate the march towards a net
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positive will as we have discussed in the context of the building bridges movement which you may already heard about
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digital technology has great potential to support progress toward sustainability that in its current form
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it continues to enable unsustainable practised says that
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the great natural systems entrenched inequality in compromise human well being
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doesn't the urgent need to reverse these negative trends and to use the potential of digit
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legislation as a vital tool to develop sustainable economic and social behaviour happens on the global scale
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we need to shift the focus away from the peseta
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short term unsustainable gains towards achievement of long term sustainable outcomes
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the launch and roll out of the global coalition
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for digital environmental sustainability code s. is its acronym
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which is partly lead from geneva suggest to me that the next iteration
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of this agenda is finally and the weight and there's no time to lose
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finally we must ensure that artificial intelligence remains at the service of
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humanity and not the other way round as mister deli molly wished
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to do so we will have to create new legal frameworks as well
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as an innovative approach approach to label in this context i would like to
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warmly welcomed the project at the deli mouldy foundation the yep institute to martinique and
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the university of geneva aiming to develop in terms of the labelling of artificial intelligence
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prospect and ambition of being able to develop a tool that will automatically
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verify compliance with ethical criteria and
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digital trust in artificial intelligence projects using
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personal data has to my knowledge no equipment elsewhere i'm delighted that the
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like play more region is once again leading the way and i think the deli molly foundation what's leading role
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the development of which i'm following very closely
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ladies and gentleman according to the studies conducted by the geneva internet platform
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today already almost fifty percent of digital covenants is done in geneva
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we can be pleased about this but given the magnitude of the
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work to be done it's not the time to rest on our laurels
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looking at she challenges in a more holistic integrated way is a must
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as the u. n. secretary general's report on digital corporation highlights geneva is the place
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uh examples where technology meets humanity real the custodians of
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one hundred fifty year old tradition in this field huh
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but we cannot simply content ourselves with managing this legacy
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continuing on our way in a business as usual mode
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in other words we need to reinvent the way in which we collaborate and build bridges between disciplines because
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in general solutions cannot be delivered by just one stakeholder alone
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as the telly molly's foundation deli molly foundations way of doing things illustrates so well
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from the point of view of creating spaces for dialogue in science but also in diplomacy and the private sector
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geneva offers a unique platform with its wide range of actors from global governance and the business world
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rubbing shoulders with academic like tells is to broaden the scope of what is possible or
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the instrument in the orchestra pit is not time to
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set them to music can create to re generative how many
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it isn't gems when i would like to conclude by
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wishing the telly molly foundation a very active second fiftieth anniversary
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and i hope you will be able to a benefit
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from many challenges and successes of the next uh fifty years
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in order to paraphrase just angelo deli molly
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i hope that scientific progress in general and progress in computer science in particular may elevate humanity and
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contribute to regenerate ecosystems on which it depends thank