As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes societies, justice systems, and global governance, it brings both promise and peril for human rights.

This interdisciplinary panel explores how AI can erode and strengthen human rights, asking what it means to uphold established principles such as privacy, equality and non-discrimination, accountability, and peace in an algorithmic age.

Organised by TechEthics, the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (Technical University of Munich), Ulster University’s School of Computing, and Ludwig-Maximilian University, this discussion brings together experts from technology, ethics, and human rights to examine:

● The human rights impact of AI;

● The growing influence of AI on education, health, innovation, jurisprudence, labour markets and governance;

● The specific opportunities, risks and challenges of fragmentation in global AI governance;

● The impacts of AI use in post-conflict and fragile societies

● The implications of AI for women and gender equality;

● The need for and the design of a new UN Convention to safeguard human rights in the age of AI, and

● Practical approaches and tools to address human rights risks in the age of AI.

This event will feature an opening address from Professor Brandon Hamber (John Hume and Thomas P. O'Neill Chair in Peace at Ulster University based at the International Conflict Research Institute).

Speakers include:

Denis Naughten, Inter-Parliamentary Union

Dr. Nell Watson, AI Ethics Maestro at IEEE and Author of ""Taming the Machine""

Ben Bland, Chair of IEEE Working Group P7014

Fiona Browne, Head of AI at Danske Bank UK

Dr. Alexander Kriebitz, Co-Founder of iuvenal research and Post-Doctoral Researcher (IEAI TUM, Chair of Business Ethics)

Dr. Caitlin Corrigan, Director of the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence and UNESCO Women for Ethical AI

This panel will be moderated by Sophia Devlin, CEO and Co-Founder of TechEthics, which promotes ethical innovation and utilises technology for social good.