- This event is hybrid. It will take place at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and online.
- The event will be livestreamed, recorded and photographed and may be shared publicly on the GCSP channels.
Artificial intelligence has become a defining force in the future of international security, reshaping not only the conduct of conflict but also the foundations of governance, diplomacy and global cooperation. The central challenge is no longer simply what artificial intelligence can do, but how humanity chooses to govern its capabilities, distribute its benefits and assume responsibility for its consequences.
These questions are increasingly inseparable from geopolitics and political and economic security. Frontier AI has emerged as an instrument of statecraft and global power. Competing national AI strategies, export controls and the concentration of advanced AI capabilities among a small number of providers are creating new dependencies and vulnerabilities for governments alike.
AI for Good highlights its potential to advance healthcare, sustainable development, humanitarian action, mediation, and peacebuilding. and international cooperation. AI for Bad confronts the growing risks of AI being weaponized my violent non-state actors and rogue states. AI for Peace asks how governments, international organisations, technology companies, civil society, peacebuilders and religious leaders can work together to ensure that AI strengthens human dignity, social cohesion and responsible governance rather than deepening existing divisions or creating new sources of insecurity.
Across all three dimensions, the debate will consider how technological progress can be aligned with ethical and legal responsibility and the pursuit of a more peaceful international order.
Objectives:
At the heart of the discussion lies a fundamental question of human agency, dignity and responsibility. As consequential decisions are increasingly mediated through human–machine systems, it becomes essential to ask whose knowledge is represented, whose perspectives are marginalised, who remains accountable and which visions of peace and security are translated into policy and action.
Five perspectives on a defining international challenge.
The debate will bring together five distinguished voices to explore how to ensure that AI contributes to human development and sustainable and effective governance and peace rather than conflict and war?
Introductory Remarks
Ambassador Thomas Greminger, Executive Director at GCSP
Speakers
H.E. Dr. Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, Chairman of the Defence, Interior and Foreign Affairs Committee; United Arab Emirates
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Mike Groen, Senior Advisor on Defense Policy, American Security Fund; former Director, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, U.S. Department of Defense; Founder/President, GroenTech LLC
Reverend Johnnie Moore, (Phd), Vice Chancellor and Managing Director of Middle East Studies at Pepperdine University, Washington D.C.
Moderator
Dr Christina Schori Liang, Head of Counterterrorism and Preventing Violent Extremism, Research and Policy Advice Department, GCSP