AI Webinar Series: Official statistics (re)distribution in the age of AI - monitoring and optimising for AI usage

What happens when official data are actually accessed and used in an increasingly AI-mediated information environment?

AI tools, search engines and other intermediaries are changing how users discover and consume official statistics. NSOs need to better understand whether and how their data are being accessed, redistributed and used by AI systems and how to optimise their dissemination practices. The webinar will take stock of the current situation globally and bring together experiences from NSOs and the OECD. It will explore what can already be monitored, what remains difficult or invisible, and what practical steps statistical offices can take to improve the use of their data in the AI age.

This online-only event is open to external participants. Interpretation in French and Spanish is available.

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15:00–15:05 | WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION PARIS21
Key takeaways from the first webinar and framing of the discussion on monitoring and optimising official data for AI use.

15:05-15:40: LIGHTNING PRESENTATIONS
The state of open data in NSOs worldwide, Jamison Henninger, Open Data Watch
Global trends in open data availability and accessibility, and emerging implications of AI for official statistics.
Andrea Fernández Conde, INEGI Mexico
Monitoring AI usage and approaches to making data and metadata more discoverable, interpretable and usable by AI systems.
OECD practice, Jens Dosse, OECD
Monitoring AI usage and approaches to making data and metadata more discoverable, interpretable and usable by AI systems.

15:40-15:55: MODERATED PANEL AND AUDIENCE Q&A
Eric Anvar, OECD
Discussion on what NSOs can monitor today, how dissemination can be optimised for AI, and where common approaches or guidance are needed.

16:00 | Closing and next steps, PARIS21