Enabling ethical AI for present and future generations in a time of heightened global insecurity 

  • 23 June 2025
  • Bangkok, Thailand (Centara Grand at CentralWorld)

13:00-18:00 (UTC+7 hours)

  • Hybrid (in-person & online)

How can ethical AI accelerate progress on sustainability goals while always recognising and remaining committed to human rights, dignity, and global equity?  

Hosted as a side event to the 3rd UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, the mini-symposium will address a range of urgent issues in the present era of global turbulence and heightened insecurity. Specifically, we’ll explore how to ensure a trajectory for AI development that: 

  • Promotes human security  
  • Safeguards ecosystems threatened by climate change and biodiversity loss  
  • Advances education, futures literacy & social cohesion 

Register below (for both in-person and online participation) and join the discussion with Raad Sharar, Programme Coordinator at The Club of Rome, alongside a global panel of experts, advocates, and changemakers to unpack how we can align emerging technologies with human and planetary wellbeing. 

Poster with speakers names: Dr. Peter Schlosser, Vice President of Global Futures, ASU, and leading planetary scientist, Keynote Speaker, USA • Dr. Fadi Daou, Executive Director, Globethics, Switzerland/ Lebanon • Dr. Steven Hartman, Executive Director, UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES, Sweden • Dr. Miwako Hosoda, Professor, Graduate School of Seisa University, and Researcher, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Japan • Dr. Sompong Klainongsuang (tbc), Director, Thailand Science, Research and Innovation Fund • Dr. Erika M. Robrahn-González, Senior Researcher in the UNESCO Chair, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Vice President of UISPP, Portugal/Brazil • Mr. Irakli Khodeli, Head of Ethics of Al Team, UNESCO Social and Human Sciences, France • Dr. Emma Porio, Lead Author for the IPCC's 7th Assessment Report on Cities and Climate, Philippines • Ms. Janani Ramanathan, Secretary General, World Academy of Art and Science, India • Ms. Raad Sharar, Program Manager, The Club of Rome, Bangladesh • Dr. Siti Murtiningsih, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia • Dr. Darina SALIBA ABI CHEDID, Professor, University of Qatar, Lebanon/France • Ms. Mel Sellick, Researcher in Al and Psychology, ASU Global Futures, USA • Ms. XIAO Qian, Vice Dean, Institute for Al International Governance, Tsinghua University, China • Dr. Surichai Wun'gaeo, Professor Emeritus, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Vice Presidency, MOST Intergovernmental Council and short intro: Questions covered in the side event This mini-symposium addresses a range of urgent issues in the present era of global turbulence and heightened insecurity. The symposium foregrounds questions concerning the potential for developing ethical Al systems that can promote human security. Discussions will also take on the pressing need to ensure a trajectory for Al development that can safeguard the integrity of social-ecological systems at risk due to threats of anthropogenic climate change, biodiversity loss and extinction. Finally, the event foregrounds the question of how increased social cohesion can be enabled and developed through scientific and Al literacy, futures literacy, education and training initiatives capable of preparing populations for the challenges of the 21st century.

Missed the event? Watch the recording, and find the key insights.

These two days of intensive, interactive dialogue kicking of UNESCO 3rd Global Forum on the Ethics of AI now culminate in a single published outcome statement, offering actionable guidance on the risks, vulnerabilities, opportunities and responsibilities implicated in AI’s potential for transformative impact in our world, while addressing the era’s most pressing challenges, from global insecurity to ecological crisis to persistent inequality.

Find the Statement from the Forum here.

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