The UNDP AI Trust and Safety Re-imagination Programme 2025 for young innovators

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Application Deadline: 22 May 2025

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 UNDP AI Trust and Safety Re-imagination Programme. The AI Trust and Safety Re-imagination Programme invites innovators throughout the general public and personal sectors to collectively re-imagine T&S, by way of measures that each prioritize equitable and sensible approaches and foster shared, public–personal sector accountability. The programme goals to advance T&S past reactive measures, by creating practices that actively anticipate and stop hurt, and create safer improvement environments. These practices must be tailor-made to the sensitivities of native contexts and the wants of impacted communities.

Requirements

• Submissions are inspired from innovators working on the intersection of AI and T&S, which can vary from prototypes, unpublished or lately revealed analysis, to a fully-fledged product or answer that has been deployed. Successful submissions should perform past the ideation stage and exhibit substantive outputs or findings.
• Submissions are additionally welcome from people with important experience from personal sector firms, startups, trade leaders integrating with AI of their enterprise sectors, related civil society teams, analysis establishments, universities and different related organizations.  

Benefits

Applicants with profitable submissions may have a possibility to:

1. Present their concepts in a multi-stakeholder discussion board consisting of main AI researchers, specialists, and innovators who can validate and doubtlessly help implementation of their concepts at scale.  
2. Engage with authorities stakeholders and specialists to co-design and take a look at collaborative methods in direction of re-imagining AI Trust and Safety in numerous regional contexts.
3. Join UNDP’s AI Trust and Safety group, contribute to thought management publications and take part in programming improvement initiatives by way of the AI Hub for Sustainable Development and different associated actions.

Submission necessities  

Submissions must be within the type of a slide presentation (e.g. PowerPoint or PDF) with not more than 10 slides, or an summary paper (e.g. in Microsoft Word or PDF) with not more than three pages, single-spaced.  

The submissions ought to exhibit:

• Alignment with the goals of the programme and confirmed expertise to ship affect;
• Awareness of the AI and T&S panorama with demonstrable understanding of native AI Trust and Safety challenges;
• Proven abilities, expertise, relationships and experience wanted to re-imagine AI Trust and Safety in growing international locations. Submissions addressing AI Trust and Safety for a selected area ought to be capable to exhibit an present equitable partnership that validates the native relevancy of their work;
• Clarity of affect and focus and real looking understanding of regional challenges and potential affect, together with limitations. Note: Effectiveness in a selected trade or with a selected inhabitants is extremely valued;
• A collaborative method, sturdy cross-functional pondering and methods that allow partnership-driven affect;

Application Timeline:

Round 1

Submissions open: 20 January 2025
Submission deadline: 20 February 2025

Round 2

Submission deadline: 20 March 2025

Round 3

Submission deadline: 24 April 2025

Round 4

Submission deadline: 22 May 2025

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the UNDP AI Trust and Safety Re-imagination Programme