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Hi! I am Valeria Babără, Legal and Advocacy Officer with Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice, an NGO based in The Hague (The Netherlands) working to advance gender justice with the International Criminal Court and other justice mechanisms. As I started introducing AI to my team and our partners, I receive a lot of feedback about the adverse effects of AI and how it risks increasing inequality, replicating bias etc. Most of the research recently issued in our international criminal law field on AI-related themes similarly focuses on negative aspects. While I believe it is important to be mindful of potential negative consequences, I feel that these efforts are not proportional to the efforts of providing access to AI resources. In other words, we will soon have a lot of research criticizing AI tools and initiatives before many actors have had a chance to learn what they are, let alone experience working with them. Any thoughts on how to navigate this? How to encourage colleagues to also be open to AI opportunities and potential?
Great question, Valeria. I think your instinct here is the right one! One suggestion for navigating this is to help your team avoid lumping all of these topics into a single conversation. By that I mean, we can interrogate and be mindful of risks, while still becoming familiar with the tools in other lower stakes contexts. To take an example from your field, AI as a tool to develop sentencing guidelines should be heavily scrutinized. AI as a tool to help your team dramatically accelerate their capacity for document review is an entirely different context (and likely something they would be quite excited about!)
- mibrady
Microsoft
Taking a look at this framework of responsible AI may also help in framing your approach to leveraging AI. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/responsible-ai
