popAI envisages the organisation of Six Stakeholder Policy Labs to facilitate exchange between relevant LEAs and related experts. The goal is to develop ideas for smart policies and test the solutions to identified controversies in experimental models.

The first five Labs will be 1-2-day virtual events in the five countries represented by pop AI LEA partners in order to engage their existing networks. Each policy lab will provide the local perspective of the five analysed countries by bringing together relevant stakeholders from each region. Each policy lab addresses a specific controversy. The 6th Lab will be held in Brussels in person, bringing together cross-regional stakeholders from the five virtual labs to assess recommendation trajectories at the EU level. The outputs will include both region-specific and EU-wide recommendations.

The experts invited to the labs include technology designers, policymakers, NGOs (e.g. human rights watch, privacy international, algorithm watch, justice league) from each region. During the labs, the LEA will engage their existing networks and expand the list of participants to further relevant stakeholders.

Each Stakeholder Policy Lab will be based on four chapters:

Each lab will cover policy needs in relation to human rights, liabilities, proportionality, gender and diversity (building on T2.2, T2.4). They will also cover more organisational challenges around issues like automation bias, data preparedness, reporting practices, and gender and diversity in the workplace (building on T2.5).