AI claims to speak any language, write and tell a story. Just ask AIChatbot’s Smart Assistant how to design a national immunization program, turn your messages into “pics” in any language. You are off and running with a presentation for a head of state. Simple, right there at your fingertips or voice command. In fact, forget the running. With the right connections you can have it on their breakfast tray first thing in the morning.
No listening needed, no time wasted with mothers at home or with local health staff. Oh, but if you want to bother doing this, we have a new interactive upgrade ready to roll out shortly. Subscribe at no extra cost and you’ll be among the first users to try out our next version, with the latest remote functions. We are already incorporating all the international human rights treaties for anyone interested in using a rights-based approach. We’ll tip you off on whether any of them apply to your situation.
No need to invest in what Ed Lannert called “getting mud on your boots”. Squeaky clean and cost effective.
UNICEF’s greatest strengths have been its field presence, its direct human contact with babies, children, their families, their teachers, their leaders, learning together from each other. Empathy and mutual understanding between real people, forged on the ground in good times and very bad times, build a powerful force of shared commitment. It is real. It evolves, leaping from sitting together under a tree, or inside a tent right into the corridors of power.
It is believable.
Leila
Afternote:
My tongue-in-cheek reflections should not diminish the seriousness of this subject and all our efforts to fathom AI. We already use it widely. I joined UNICEF dedicated to using tools that are now integral to AI in the best interests of children.
A recent article in the Stanford Law Journal by Anne Dulka s worth a read on how widely AI is already being used as a tool in the enforcement of international human rights law. She raises appropriate questions for all of us. “The use of AI for the “good of human rights may be transformative. At the same time, the same technologies may be used to perpetuate harms, so it is equally important to understand where AI must be mitigated by thoughtful legal and regulatory intervention.”
26 STAN. TECH. L. REV. 316 (2023)
ReplyDeleteThank you Leila for kick starting the discussion on AI, a topic that is on everyone's lips these days. Just look at the number of articles that have passed on the subject in recent weeks on our XUNICEF Blog. However we have not yet seen a real exchange of views from our own Members which we thought would come from the articles published. Of course, you are right, UNICEF and others have been using AI for some time for various functions of a technical nature. But the current hype is something of much bigger proportions and the jury is out about what happens in the near future. Everybody agrees that it has both positive and negative attributes (like any other techie novelty in human evolution) and all depends how it is used and by whom. Could it be that it will slowly but surely integrate all our universe and become such an ordinary matter that we will forget all the current mania about it ?