AI for Peace

Branka Panic is the Founding Director of AI for Peace, a think tank ensuring that AI benefits peace, security, and sustainable development. Panic is a Fellow at the NYU Center on International Cooperation, Stimson-Microsoft Responsible AI Fellow, a member of UNESCO Women4Ethical AI, and a member of IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. Panic is a Senior Adviser on AI and Innovation to the German Federal Foreign Office and works as a Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina. She holds an MA in International Development Policy from Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy, and an MS in International Security from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Dr Paige Arthur is the Director of Global Programming at Columbia Global (Columbia University, New York). Arthur was formerly a Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the NYU Center on International Cooperation, where she led the Center’s work on conflict prevention and peacebuilding, including a three-year initiative on data-driven approaches to prevention. She is the author and editor of several books on transitional justice (University of Cambridge Press) and decolonization (Verso Books), and she holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Introduction. 1. AI and conflict prediction: our reach exceeding our grasp 2. AI and hate speech: the role of algorithms in inciting violence and fighting against it 3. AI, human rights, and peace: machines as enablers of rights work 4. AI, climate, and conflict: the role of data science in climate change and sustaining peace 5. AI, peace, and ethics: from principles to practice