2. AI in Humanitarian Funding: Ensuring Fairness and Transparency

Artificial intelligence’s (AI) integration into humanitarian funding and resource allocation offers significant opportunities to enhance decision-making, optimize resource distribution and predict humanitarian needs more accurately.
This panel will explore the ethical dimensions of AI in humanitarian contexts, focusing on designing and implementing systems that uphold humanitarian principles. By addressing bias, fairness and transparency, the panel will examine how AI can be both effective and ethically aligned with humanitarian standards.
Speakers
Paola Vesco, Senior Researcher at PRIO and the VIEWS project
Håvard Nygård, Director, Department for Knowledge and Innovation, NORAD
Branka Panic, AI for Peace Director and NYU CIC Non-resident Fellow
David Hammond, Director of Research for the Institute for Economics and Peace
The panel will be moderated by Siri Aas Rustad, Research Director, PRIO