What would it take for AI to benefit peace?

About this episode

The episode explores how AI and digital technologies can be leveraged to promote peace and address conflicts.

This season, we’ve been looking into the forces that get in the way of accurate information and peacemaking. One theme has repeated across discussions: how AI can muddy the information ecosystem in ways that fuel conflicts. Today, we’re spinning this issue around and asking: how can new technologies and AI benefit peace? Johanna Poutanen is the Head Inclusion and Digital Innovation at the CMI Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, where one of her priorities is to address the opportunities and risks that digital technologies present for peacemaking. She has over two decades of experiences in mediation, including in Yemen, Palestine, South Sudan and Nepal. Find out more at: https://cmi.fi/ Evelyne Tauchnitz is a post-doc and lecturer at the University of Lucerne’s Graduate School in Ethics. Her research focuses on how digital technologies can be employed to build, support, and maintain peace through non-violent methods of conflict transformation. Find out more here . Check out our episode on AI & Autonomous Weapons here . We’d love to hear your thoughts about Disrupting Peace. Fill out a short survey . Disrupting Peace is a production of The World Peace Foundation. This episode…

People in this episode

Hosts: World Peace Foundation, Bridget Conley

Guests: Johanna Poutanen, Evelyne Tauchnitz

Topics covered

• AI
• peace
• digital technologies
• conflict transformation
• mediation

Keywords

• AI
• peace
• digital innovation
• conflict resolution
• mediation
• non-violent methods
• information ecosystem

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CMI Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, University of Lucerne

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