Hisham Zawil, contributor to the AI Ethics Lab and Tech & Digital Partnerships & Engagement at the United Nations Refugee Agency, reflects on what the 1951 Refugee Convention means to Silicon Valley and refugees, seventy-five years on. On 28 July 1951, in Geneva, governments opened a treaty for signature that solidified...
The Rockefeller Foundation has selected Dr. Nathan C. Walker as a 2027 Bellagio Center Resident in recognition of his research on artificial intelligence and human rights. During a sabbatical in March 2027, Dr. Walker will join an international cohort of scholars, artists, and practitioners at the Bellagio Center on Lake Como,...
United Nations Ambassador Kah, Visiting Scholar at the AI Ethics Lab at Rutgers University, chaired the twelfth session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) from 28 or 29 October 2025 for a conversation on the intersection of intellectual property and frontier technologies. Please watch the webcast. He explored the legal...
The AI Ethics Lab is honored to welcome as a visiting scholar His Excellency Ambassador Prof. Muhammadou M. O. Kah, Ph.D., the Permanent Representative of The Gambia to the Swiss Confederation and Permanent Mission to the UN, WTO, and other international organizations in Switzerland. His Excellency is a dual citizen of...
Dr. Nathan C. Walker moderated a panel discussion on the Needs and Contributions of the Global Majority to Global AI Governance, as part of a North–South Policy Dialogue on the proposed UN Convention on AI, Data and Human Rights, hosted by the School for Data Science and Computational Thinking at Stellenbosch...
In its inaugural year, the AI Ethics Lab at the Digital Studies Center, affiliated with the Digital Studies and Philosophy & Religion departments and led by the Principal Investigator Dr. Nathan C. Walker, has achieved the following milestones in research, course development, public scholarship, and university service. Research: With generous support...
A global research initiative has emerged at Rutgers–Camden to tackle the pressing ethical challenges and opportunities posed by the rapid growth of artificial intelligence, or AI. Launched last fall, the AI Ethics Lab, housed in the Digital Studies Center under the Department of English and Communication, examines artificial intelligence’s ethical and legal...
Today, the researchers at AI Ethics Lab launched a new branded website at aiethicslab.rutgers.edu to advance their research projects, including the AI & Human Rights Index, Project Insight, and Moral Imagination.
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