GAEIA has officially kicked off its 3rd Global Cohort in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)!
Launched from the Responsible Digital Leadership project anchored at Stanford’s Center for Human Rights and International Justice, GAEIA’s unique collaboration process has brought together and sustained dynamic relationship among a highly diverse group of over 100 PhD and advanced level students from universities representing more than 25 countries, and governmental, nongovernmental and industry professionals. This comprehensive and nuanced approach is vital given the global reach of technology and its impacts, increasing public distrust and concern about advanced technology and data use, and the relatively limited perspectives currently considered in these dialogues.
This year, we collaborate with UNHCR to build upon GAEIA’s prior years’ learnings in #fintech and #edtech to examine the ways in which technology impacts people who have been forcibly displaced from their homes due to conflict, disasters and the impacts of climate change, human rights violations, and persecution. This may include but is not limited to areas of research on the use of AI to threaten or strengthen information integrity, biometrics and AI use embedded in border technology, and – capitalizing on the research conducted in prior cohorts – how technology impacts access to financial and education services?
The program launches in Spring 2024 and runs through Fall. Scholars meet twice a month in collaboration with leading scholars, industry, and government and intergovernmental leaders to learn about and contemplate the latest developments in technology, data use, and their regulation. We will discuss applications of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies across sectors; existing and emerging regulations across geographic contexts; ethics, human rights, United Nations SDG’s, and various theoretical and empirical frameworks for assessing risk; digital innovation in international development contexts; the processes and practices by which ethical and responsible innovation is developed; and the GAEIA Ethical Dilemma template and research process. Importantly, we will also build an international network of similarly interested scholars and practitioners.