018 - Arctic AI Summit, Kirkenes. Roundtable AI in the public sector of small places

This episode of Vitlíki comes to you in English, recorded at the Arctic AI Summit in Kirkenes in northern Norway. We bring you a roundtable on AI in the public sector of small places: the municipalities, public bodies and communities across the North that have to make AI work with a small budget, no IT department and a population where everyone knows each other.

We ask where AI could make the biggest difference in local public services over the next two years, what a realistic first step looks like for a small municipality, and where moving too fast would do more harm than good. We also talk about who is responsible when an AI-supported decision goes wrong, how public bodies earn citizens' trust, and what small places can learn from each other that they cannot learn from big countries.

Brennan ThompsonHanna JensenHenrik SørlandKarin Marie Funding (Marie) LysterAlva LundbergChristof NichterleinMarkus PellikkaKalle SievänenMaren Sander Granlien

A big thank you to the Arctic AI Summit, Sør-Varanger Utvikling, ICE Kirkenes (The Center of Arctic Entrepreneurs) and Nordic Atlantic Cooperation (NORA) for making this conversation possible, and a special shout-out to Ondrej Spala for bringing us all together in Kirkenes.

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