Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool that has the potential to transform our efforts to promote human rights by helping us solve some of the greatest challenges of our generation from healthcare to climate change. What does this new landscape look like? How is it being used to promote human rights? And does AI have a dark side?
Join the Human Rights Watch Young Professionals Network as we explore these questions and more with leading Human Rights and AI experts Brian Root (Human Rights Watch), Alexa Koenig (Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley), and others.
Light bites and drinks will be provided.
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Brian Root, Senior Quantitative Analyst, is responsible for data analyses in Human Rights Watch reports. In addition to statistical analyses, he works with researchers and Program staff, providing guidance on quantitative data collection and training on statistics and research methodology. He has previously worked on research design and quantitative analysis for organizations such as the Columbia Group for Children in Adversity, Scholars at Risk Network, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center. He has conducted field research with vulnerable populations in Guatemala, Sri Lanka, and post-Katrina New Orleans. Root holds a BA from UC San Diego and received his Ph.D. in International Development from Tulane University Law School.
Alexa Koenig, Ph.D., J.D, is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Center and a lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she teaches classes on human rights and international criminal law with a particular focus on the impact of emerging technologies on human rights practice. She co-founded the Human Rights Investigations Lab, which trains undergraduate and graduate students to use cutting-edge open source methods to support human rights advocacy and accountability. Alexa is co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Future Global Council on Technology and Human Rights, a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, co-chair of the Technology Advisory Board of the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, and a founding member of the board of advisors for ARCHER, a UC Berkeley-established nonprofit that leverages technology to make data-driven investigations accessible, smarter and more scalable.
Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool that has the potential to transform our efforts to promote human rights by helping us solve some of the greatest challenges of our generation from healthcare to climate change. What does this new landscape look like? How is it being used to promote human rights? And does AI have a dark side?
Join the Human Rights Watch Young Professionals Network as we explore these questions and more with leading Human Rights and AI experts Brian Root (Human Rights Watch), Alexa Koenig (Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley), and others.
Light bites and drinks will be provided.
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Brian Root, Senior Quantitative Analyst, is responsible for data analyses in Human Rights Watch reports. In addition to statistical analyses, he works with researchers and Program staff, providing guidance on quantitative data collection and training on statistics and research methodology. He has previously worked on research design and quantitative analysis for organizations such as the Columbia Group for Children in Adversity, Scholars at Risk Network, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center. He has conducted field research with vulnerable populations in Guatemala, Sri Lanka, and post-Katrina New Orleans. Root holds a BA from UC San Diego and received his Ph.D. in International Development from Tulane University Law School.
Alexa Koenig, Ph.D., J.D, is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Center and a lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she teaches classes on human rights and international criminal law with a particular focus on the impact of emerging technologies on human rights practice. She co-founded the Human Rights Investigations Lab, which trains undergraduate and graduate students to use cutting-edge open source methods to support human rights advocacy and accountability. Alexa is co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Future Global Council on Technology and Human Rights, a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, co-chair of the Technology Advisory Board of the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, and a founding member of the board of advisors for ARCHER, a UC Berkeley-established nonprofit that leverages technology to make data-driven investigations accessible, smarter and more scalable.
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