 Welcome to the AI for good global summit here in Geneva. We're at the ITU headquarters And I'm really pleased to have with me Eve D'Accord. He's the director general of the international Red Cross I believe you have 19,000 full-time staff basically most of them in war zones. Yes, that's true. Absolutely. Yeah 1000 in Geneva I think in Geneva we are also developing internationally maintained law So that's part of a mandate the law regulate war and 18,000 people in the field You will find us in Syria in Ukraine in Sudan in Congo in Myanmar in Afghanistan all the places where the situation is difficult Phenomenal. We know why they're there, but how does AI impact what they're doing on the ground? It's interesting you mentioned AI because in a way AI is impacting us through different elements first data as An organization we want to assist but also protect people and the way to protect people is in fact to Receive data. So if I want to protect you in a prison for example, you will give me you data I'll be very careful about where you're coming from your name What happens to you? Where is your family? And I will protect this data And of course I will then make sure my colleagues are following that up connecting with the family We still have to date data which are old hundreds years ago Which is quite amazing if you think about it. The other way of course is everything related to our way We operate, you know in order to be able to do assessments. We use today big data algorithm To complement our assessments on water and sanitations or else we do that and the third one is Much more into our interactions with I would say warrior around the world We see that autonomous weapons and AI is much more used on battlefield that it was 10 years ago And here the key questions is human agency. Do we want tomorrow having weapons who can make decisions? Who needs to be killed among us? Without human control. That's the big questions Let's take something very simple Prisoner swaps which the Red Cross is very involved in can AI help with that? Yeah, absolutely Yeah, I could use that with algorithm, which could for example help to know, you know We should go there how it works, but very important We would control the algorithm in order the algorithm is not biased that the algorithm is really Principled because here typically what we want is to be able to choose let's say not just a swap but choose the most Vulnerable people among the group. I mean, we will be very careful that our algorithm is not doing that automatically But it's following very very clear principle rule What if those algorithms that you that data you've got access to gets into the wrong hands? That would be dramatic for us Yeah, because I think the the first thing is you will immediately break the trust that people have with you know with us I mean they give us their data because they trust us If our data will be you know hacked and you know put publicly it will break the trust and be it will put a lot Of people in danger. We're living in a world where their data means something we're talking about death and life Not just about publicity or whatever so that will change dramatically life for people Let's go back to maybe the 70s with some of the severe famines. We had in East Africa with droughts What would AI have helped you with back then that you didn't have then what AI would have done totally differently It would have empowered people differently Not so much us but the power of the people and people would have certainly models Which will allow them to be much more aware about in fact if drought would come and So much more interested about their decision-making so it will help them for example to connect about the numbers of animals What it means to water by day how they would look at that? So it would bring them a lot of data and not just data for their own family But data for the community and the country it would have not let's be clear prevent them all But he would have certainly make them behave differently. So it will empower people That's one which is important and be it would have empowered the community to because one of the things which happened normally Typically in the 70s and 80s the international community Invested too late when they started to do that It was every too late when you have a drought or when you have a famine you need to intervene before the shock arrived Just before and again, it would have helped evidence It were a force in fact the community to intervene before Over the four days here What are you what's your objectives and what would you hope to see it by the end? My main objective is to make sure that we continue to have Very inclusive dialogue and it's a difficult on complex issue and the complex issue is is human agency in AI And how do we make sure that AI is really developed for good? I mean, this is the this is the title of the summit. That's always so interesting But to do that you need to have an inclusive dialogue between states civil society or international Organization like mine and trying to find a way to do that and it will occupy us for quite a while. I think Difficult question last question What's the state of the world from your perspective right now a difficult one because the big issues are global Ecology or climate change social political violence? I mean all that and it will require global solution and right now the nation state together when I look at all the nation They don't produce these days any consensus and any global solutions for a lot of reason So I think we are in a world and we feel it where you have global issues impacting all of us But no global solutions and that is the equations that we need to find and to solve That's if Dakar of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Thank you so much. Thanks