A United Nations Research Institute Created An Ai Refugee Avatar

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A investigation institute connected to nan United Nations has created 2 AI-powered avatars designed to thatch group astir exile issues.

404 Media wrote astir an research conducted by a people astatine nan United Nations University Center for Policy Research that resulted successful nan creation of 2 AI agents aliases avatars — Amina, a fictional female who fled Sudan and is surviving successful a exile campy successful Chad, and Abdalla, a fictional worker pinch nan Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary unit successful Sudan.

Users are expected to beryllium capable to talk to Amina and Abdalla connected the experiment’s website, though I received an correction connection erstwhile I tried to registry connected Saturday afternoon.

Eduardo Albrecht, a Columbia professor and a elder chap astatine nan UNU-CPR, told 404 Media that he and his students were “just playing astir pinch nan concept” and not proposing this arsenic a solution for nan UN.

A paper summarizing this activity suggested that these avatars could yet beryllium utilized “to quickly make a lawsuit to donors.” However, it besides noted that galore shop attendees who interacted pinch nan agents responded negatively, for illustration saying that refugees “are very tin of speaking for themselves successful existent life.”

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