CIC's Work on Artificial Intelligence

AI + Violence Prevention

Building on CIC’s past research on risk and protective factors, CIC is exploring how to develop a new AI tool. This includes developing an improved methodology to provide decision-makers with real-time insights into sources of conflict and resilience. This will enable them to map gaps in their prevention architecture, identify where international partners can contribute in a more targeted, timely, and impactful way, and adapt as conditions evolve.

• Develop a diagnostic tool that gives decision-makers real-time insights into national violent conflict risks and sources of resilience.

Reach out to Luisa Portugal and Céline Monnier for any questions.

Multilateral AI Governance

The Multilateral Reform program’s AI governance work focuses on strengthening coherence within this emerging architecture. The program examines how mandates interact, how processes evolve, and how institutional design choices shape the effectiveness of UN-mandated mechanisms. This includes mapping the UN AI ecosystem, engaging directly with Member States and UN entities to clarify roles and entry points for engagement, and providing structured ideas to support the development of processes such as the Global Dialogue.

Reach out to Joris de Mooij for any questions.

AI + People-Centered Justice

CIC’s emerging technology, artificial intelligence, and justice portfolio operates on two core assumptions:

• Strong, well-designed legal systems, with the principle of equal access to justice for all at the center, can support a more balanced, inclusive, and equitable AI revolution, while increasing access to the benefits of technology for everyone. This includes benefiting private markets in a way that supports public benefit from private innovation.
• Reciprocally, an inclusive and equitable AI revolution could increase equal access to justice for all.

Based on these core assumptions, and leveraging multistakeholder networks of public, private, multilateral, civil society, and academic experts, CIC has the following focus areas related to justice:

• Identify and profile access to justice interventions that support prosocial and responsible outcomes related to emerging AI and technology. In parallel, identify and profile AI and emerging technology interventions that support positive access to justice outcomes.
• Facilitate greater collaboration between public and private actors to support equitable access to technology innovations for access to justice.
• Provide evidence-based policy guidance to support decision-makers working at the nexus of justice and AI, prioritizing cross-sector discourse, collaboration, learning, and action.

Reach out to Nate Edwards for any questions.

AI + the Sustainable Development Goals

To leverage the positive potential of AI, the multilateral system needs to utilize the tools already at its disposal. These tools enable the establishment of normative frameworks, the institutionalization of universal values, and the facilitation of collective action among diverse stakeholders. In particular, years of research, policy frameworks, partnership development, and programming aimed at advancing the Sustainable Development Agenda (Agenda 2030) could become an asset to maximize the positive potential of the AI revolution. These longstanding efforts will not only benefit from new technologies, but they also offer tributaries by which the positive potential of AI can flow.