Call for Applications: UNIDIR Women in AI Fellowship(Fully-funded)

BackgroundArtificial intelligence (AI) has shortly develop into an omnipresent governance problem, together with inside the enviornment of worldwide safety and disarmament. While there isn’t any formal UN course of to particularly focus on AI in this context other than the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems, AI is more and more changing into a subject of dialogue inside different UN cybersecurity, disarmament and counter-terrorism processes.

However, a standard function of worldwide safety processes is the underrepresentation of ladies. UNIDIR research reveals that, on common, solely a 3rd of the diplomats accredited to arms management, non-proliferation and disarmament boards are ladies.

 

As a end result, these boards not solely lack equitable participation, in addition they develop into prone to oversights across the gender-specific impacts of weapons and violence. Our research additionally highlights that efficient capacity-building could also be one measure to assist rectify this vis-à-vis governance of AI.

To redress gender inequalities and promote inclusive and efficient policymaking, UNIDIR is convening the 2025 version of the Women in AI Fellowship. This is designed as a capacity-building intervention that endows ladies diplomats with up-to-the-minute information of the coverage, authorized and technical elements of AI, together with its gendered implications. Women in AI Fellows purchase the knowhow, abilities, assets and networks required to interact successfully in multilateral AI dialogue in the sphere of worldwide peace and safety.

Watch all video testimonials from our 2024 Women in AI Fellows on our YouTube channel.