Paper details
| Paper authors | Kristin Bergtora Sandvik |
| In panel on | Practitioner-Academic virtual roundtable: “Taking stock: How is AI change humanitarian work?” |
| Paper presenter(s) will be presenting | In-Person & Online |
Abstract
Digital experimentation takes the humanitarian space, humanitarian work, and the nature of aid in new directions and creates and exacerbates risk and harm for vulnerable individuals and communities. This intervention argues the use of generative AI in aid is generally mischaracterized as unregulated when the adoption and adaptation of generative AI in fact represents a comprehensive and unprecedented mainstreaming of humanitarian experimentation across the aid sector. The intervention suggests that the aggregate impact of generative AI in the humanitarian sector will be to transform the modes of humanitarian governance beyond its ‘digital tools.’ This means shifting the focus from thinking about accountability for governing experimental technologies to accountability for experimental humanitarian governance.
