Eurasia News

  As the role of artificial intelligence ( AI ) in peacebuilding grows, so too does the need to address the fundamental biases embedded within the data that drive AI systems. Currently, over 90% of AI training datasets are sourced from Europe and North America, yet the majority of global conflicts occur outside these regions. This disparity creates a critical challenge: AI systems trained on data that reflects the Global North often fail to account for the realities of conflict in the Global South. This is particularly problematic in regions such as Africa, where traditional, community-based conflict resolution mechanisms are frequently overlooked in AI-driven peacebuilding strategies. The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has a key role to play in shifting this paradigm by fostering a more inclusive approach to data collection and model training, ensuring that AI systems reflect diverse cultural and governance practices. By collaborating with African ins...

  Digital technology and Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) pose threats to human right to freedom of thought [1], identified in terms of threats to the right not to reveal one’s thoughts, not to be penalized for one’s thoughts, and not to have one’s thoughts manipulated. To lose freedom of thought is to lose dignity and psychological integrity at the individual level, and social fairness and trust at the level of society. Rights to freedom of thought and dignity [2] are protected by international human rights law, with the clear understanding that what the latter aims to secure is mental autonomy [1, 2]. In the digital society at the current technological scale, an individual’s mental autonomy in terms of agency over their thoughts, actions, and decisions is compromised by factors relating to access to information, domain knowledge and expertise, and the individual understanding of and access to the different types of digital technology and AI currently deployed. As a consequence,...