There’s no shortage of principles and policies for governing AI from governments and NGOs around the world. But how do they put those principles and policies into practice? It’s that practical side of AI governance that has been a key focus of our work at World Privacy Forum for more than two years.

Rather than look only at government policies, in early 2023 we went layers deeper, looking at the tools that governments and NGOs around the world—from Canada to Chile to Ghana to New Zealand to Singapore—have developed for actually implementing those AI policies.

Since then, we have observed actual use of these tools to understand how they govern and measure AI and spot where there’s room for improvement. Key to that work has been talking to people who have actually used those AI governance tools, including people in Canada and Chile.

WPF’s forthcoming Privacy on the Ground series—AI Governance Tools on the Ground—features talks with some of those people. In this episode introducing the series, you’ll hear WPF’s founder and executive director, Pam Dixon, along with WPF’s deputy director and Privacy on the Ground host and producer Kate Kaye, discuss what led to this work and how AI Governance Tools have evolved. This episode of Privacy on the Ground features music by Maciej Sadowski. The Privacy on the Ground intro theme features music by Pangal.