10 September 2025, 16:30-17:45
Human Rights Conversations
LATSIS Symposium
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the human rights landscape — from automated decision-making to predictive analytics and risk mapping. While AI might offer promising solutions for advancing rights protection, it also presents profound risks: automated warfare, algorithmic discrimination, surveillance risks, misuse by states and non-state actors and accountability gaps.
This panel brings together practitioners and researchers from the fields of AI ethics, international human rights law, conflict and war studies as well as digital innovation to dissect the duality of AI’s role in this space. It will explore how AI is being used by human rights institutions to enhance the efficiency, scope, and impact of monitoring and implementation frameworks — and how academic research contributes by critically reflecting on these developments and interrogating their broader implications. The panel will also examine how AI can entrench structural discrimination, amplify asymmetries of power, or be used for mass-surveillance and the automation of warfare.
This Human Rights Conversation, the first event of this dedicated Series to be taking place outside of Geneva, is co-organized with the Centre for Security Studies at ETH Zurich (CSS) and is an integrating part of the 2025 Latsis Symposium: Science for Global Development and Humanitarian Action, an initiative of ETH for Development (ETH4D).
To attend the workshop, please register for the LATSIS 2025 Symposium.
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