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DDI Fall Forum 2025: Who Is the Human in the Loop?

Dignity, Judgment & Responsibility in the Agentic Workplace. Thirty invited participants adopted the Maroma Principles for Dignified Human-Agent Work, calling for meaningful human authority, substantive oversight, and worker voice as AI agents enter workplace decision-making.

Maroma, A Belmond Hotel, Riviera Maya
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DDI Summer Forum 2024: The Recourse Deficit: Redress for Algorithmic Harm

Our flagship annual convening bringing together scholars, policymakers, technologists, and civil society leaders to address the most pressing digital-rights challenges of our time.

San Diego, California
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AI Afterlife Ethics: A Policy Roundtable

An expert roundtable examining emerging legislative approaches to posthumous data rights and AI-generated replicas across North America and Europe.

Virtual
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Governance of Autonomous Systems: International Workshop

A two-day workshop co-hosted with Carleton University examining accountability frameworks for agentic AI systems in public and private sectors.

Ottawa, Canada / Virtual
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AI, Work & Family: A Community Forum

A free public forum on how artificial intelligence is reshaping employment, caregiving, and family life — and what communities can do to protect themselves.

Aflora, Tulum, Mexico
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DDI Releases Children in the Behavioural Machine
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DDI Releases Children in the Behavioural Machine

A new 65-page report by founder Emily D. Bauman calls for child-centered AI governance, youth participation, and an end to engagement optimization for minors.

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Digital Dignity Institute Adopts Maroma Principles for Dignified Human-Agent Work
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Digital Dignity Institute Adopts Maroma Principles for Dignified Human-Agent Work

DDI's Fall Forum adopted the Maroma Principles for Dignified Human-Agent Work, setting out ten conditions for meaningful human judgment and responsibility in the agentic workplace.

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DDI Summer Forum 2024: San Diego Principles on Algorithmic Accountability Adopted
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DDI Summer Forum 2024: San Diego Principles on Algorithmic Accountability Adopted

160 participants from 8 countries adopt a twelve-point declaration calling for mandatory redress mechanisms, proactive harm disclosure, and civil liability for algorithmic harm.

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Digital Dignity Institute Releases Framework for Posthumous AI Consent
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Digital Dignity Institute Releases Framework for Posthumous AI Consent

A new policy framework addressing the governance of AI-generated replicas of deceased individuals, developed in collaboration with international legal scholars and thanatologists.

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DDI Calls for the Creation of a Global Coalition on AI Surveillance and Profiling Standards.
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DDI Calls for the Creation of a Global Coalition on AI Surveillance and Profiling Standards.

DDI says existing civil-society initiatives have established important protections against communications surveillance, biometric mass surveillance and high-risk AI, but no dedicated global coalition currently brings those strands together around binding international minimum standards for AI systems that observe, identify, classify, infer, predict and profile people.

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New Research: Children and AI Behavioural Systems
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New Research: Children and AI Behavioural Systems

Findings from our interdisciplinary study on how children encounter and are affected by AI-driven behavioural systems in education and consumer contexts.

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