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worldviews that currently main-
tain our unsustainability?
How can new data streams-
from satellite imagery to crowd-
s ou rci ng appl ic a t ion s-be
credibly, ethically, and legitimate-
ly used to expose and quantify
the cost of externalities and gen-
erate accountability?
What are the opportunities and
threats that come with new forms
of radical transparency and the
use of AI for governance, sur-
veillance, and informational
control?
How can we better understand
and leverage new models of
governance, including elements
of anticipator y governance,
reflective governance, and AIpowered governance, especially
given that some of these mod-
els are already in use?
How can we build platforms
for social coordination which
encourage prosocial entrepre-
neurship and empower grass-
roots collective action, ensuring
that control and self-determina-
tion are retained and main-
tained by the beneficiaries?
How can such platforms be
coordinated to achieve larges c a le-i nde e d, p l a ne t a r y scale-collective action?
How can trust and account-
ability be effectively created in
a world where decisions are
based on collective and artifi-
cial intelligence?
How can we reconceive knowl-
edge as a common-pool resource?
Can AI and digital technologies
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cross-fertilization of ideas to
knowledge commons? If so, can
build a new generation of leaders
the transformation of big data
versed in digital rights and pro-
into common knowledge be used
tection of the Earth's life-support
to enhance collective awareness
that can motivate users to selfsystems. This could include, for
organize and create innovative
example, ethics and social im--
pact courses for computer scien-
collective action solutions to
socio-economic problems?
tists, AI and digital technologies
■■ What are the implica-
tions of the transfor-
m a tive changes and
disr uptions broug ht
about by the digital revo-
The digital age presents powerful
lution for equity between
and within countries?
levers for the types of societal
Are there opp or t u n i -
transformations needed.
ties to leverage AI and
other technologies to
help communities and
courses for environmental social
countries achieve an equitable
and just distribution of re-
-
sciences and humanities schol-
sources which can be main-
ars, early introduction for all stu-
tained over time?
dents to ethics, environment,
■■ How can AI and other digital
and digitalization, and a stronger
technologies help to minimize
emphasis on critical thinking
the psychological distance to
and civic training in education
climate change and incentivize
more broadly.
■■ Using a variety of targeted com-
sustainable behavior? How can
munications and engagement
AI and other digital technolo-
channels, we must build public
gies be used to incentivize col-
understanding of the impor-
lective action?
tance for the collection of data
Targeted Communication,
for the public good and garner
Engagement, and Education to
support for a new social con-
Advance the Social Contract
tract for the digital age.
As this movement grows, knowl-
We encourage worldwide en--
edge transfer will be critical. The
gagement with these critical ques-
following can help foster widespread
tions about big data, digital platforms,
dissemination of learning:
and artificial intelligence that will
■■ In the education sector, we can
have a significant impact on the
create opportunities for stron-
future of humankind and the planet
ger interdisciplinary training,
that sustains us.

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