The recordings from the PRIO AI Days sessions are now available via PRIO’s YouTube channel. Watch VIEWS’ Associate Director and Senior Researcher, Dr. Paola Vesco, speak on the topic of AI in Humanitarian Funding below.
Panel title: “AI in Humanitarian Funding: Ensuring Fairness and Transparency”
Date: 16 October 2024
Location: Peace Research Institute Oslo (live-streamed)
Topic: Artificial intelligence’s (AI) integration into humanitarian funding and resource allocation offers significant opportunities to enhance decision-making, optimize resource distribution and predict humanitarian needs more accurately. This panel will explore the ethical dimensions of AI in humanitarian contexts, focusing on designing and implementing systems that uphold humanitarian principles. By addressing bias, fairness and transparency, the panel will examine how AI can be both effective and ethically aligned with humanitarian standards.
Speakers:
- Paola Vesco, Senior Researcher at PRIO and the VIEWS project
- Håvard Nygård, Director, Department for Knowledge and Innovation, NORAD
- Branka Panic, AI for Peace Director and NYU CIC Non-resident Fellow
- David Hammond, Director of Research for the Institute for Economics and Peace
- [Moderator] Siri Aas Rustad, Research Director, PRIO