The Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET), in cooperation with ICT4Peace, is proud to announce its most recent paper Human security in the age of AI: Securing and empowering individuals by Barbara Weekes, Senior Advisor of ICT4Peace and ZHET.
We at the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) have been working on Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) and peace and security issues for the past 14 years. Much has changed in terms of the potential for international coordination, the speed of information, the rise of social media and the advancements made by AI. Over the past 18 months ZHET and ICT4Peace have focussed particularly on the impact of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity on society and individuals and resulting peace-time threats.
How can we secure individuals’ rights, data and privacy online, using traditional national security approaches when the challenges we face are inherently both local citizen-based, and international?
One way forward could be to develop policies that consider more the individual as the epicenter of the security challenge instead of only traditional territorial sovereignty. Human beings need to be the core focus of the IT and security agenda going forward.
The Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET), in cooperation with ICT4Peace, held a series of informal workshops in 2018 with leading thinkers on the impact of AI. As the events of the past months have signalled, it is clear we are at a turning point about how we want to manage and shape the future of the “Data Age”.
The paper can be found here.