Conference engages youth
Courtesy Gracie Diabo
Gracie Diabo is bringing back even more knowledge to the community, after attending The Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy’s Genz(Z) AI National Youth Forum in Montreal last week.
“It was really interesting and unique to learn from new perspectives,” said Diabo, who is currently studying engineering at McGill University.
“I didn’t know much about policy-making at all, and I learned about how much importance is put into every single word of a policy recommendation, and the time spent to come to a consensus. That was really eye-opening to me.”
The event was part of an ongoing series of structured forums taking place across Canada to engage youth in discussing issues and opportunities in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
Diabo said it was encouraging to see so many youth excited to take part.
“I think it’s so important because a space like policy-making or governance is hard to get into as a youth, and I feel like these democratic or policy-making spaces are often just the older generation writing policy about younger people without the younger people,” she said. “The experience of learning what it’s like is super valuable, and getting all of our input to make real action is something that’s really inspiring.”
