{"id":2630,"date":"2025-07-13T01:21:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T01:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/a-united-nations-research-institute-created-an-ai-refugee-avatar\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T01:21:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T01:21:52","slug":"a-united-nations-research-institute-created-an-ai-refugee-avatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/a-united-nations-research-institute-created-an-ai-refugee-avatar\/","title":{"rendered":"A United Nations research institute created an AI refugee avatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A research institute connected to the United Nations has created two AI-powered avatars designed to teach people about refugee issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">404 Media wrote about an experiment conducted by a class at the United Nations University Center for Policy Research that resulted in the creation of two AI agents or avatars &mdash; Amina, a fictional woman who fled Sudan and is living in a refugee camp in Chad, and Abdalla, a fictional soldier with the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary force in Sudan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Users are supposed to be able to talk to Amina and Abdalla on the experiment&rsquo;s website, though I received an error message when I tried to register on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eduardo Albrecht, a Columbia professor and a senior fellow at the UNU-CPR, told 404 Media that he and his students were &ldquo;just playing around with the concept&rdquo; and not proposing this as a solution for the UN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A paper summarizing this work suggested that these avatars could eventually be used &ldquo;to quickly make a case to donors.&rdquo; However, it also noted that many workshop attendees who interacted with the agents responded negatively, for example saying that refugees &ldquo;are very capable of speaking for themselves in real life.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>A United Nations research institute created an AI refugee avatar<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research institute connected to the United Nations has created two AI-powered avatars designed to teach people about refugee issues. 404 Media wrote about an experiment conducted by a class at the United Nations University Center for Policy Research that resulted in the creation of two AI agents or avatars &mdash; Amina, a fictional woman&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/a-united-nations-research-institute-created-an-ai-refugee-avatar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;A United Nations research institute created an AI refugee avatar&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}