The report “Artificial Intelligence and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Southeast Asia”examines the opportunities and risks of AI from this unique perspective by focusing on four types of gender bias in AI – discrimination, stereotyping, exclusion and insecurity – that must be addressed before the region can fully benefit from new technological developments.
“As AI is expected to add $1 trillion to the country’s gross domestic product, South East Asia country by 2030, understand the impact of these technologies on the WPS The program is critical to helping these countries regulate technologies and mitigate their risks,” the report said.
This research examines the relationship between AI And WPS according to three types of AI and their applications: AI for peace, neutral AI and AI for conflict.
This report notes that in these categories, AI has had both favorable and unfavorable effects on gender-responsive peace and women’s agency in peace efforts.
Although the use of AI for peaceful purposes can bring multiple benefits, such as improving the inclusiveness and effectiveness of conflict prevention and tracking evidence of human rights violations, it is used unequally between genders, and pervasive gender bias makes women less likely to benefit from the application of AI. these technologies.
The report also highlights the risks associated with the use of these technologies for military purposes.
This research identifies two dimensions to improve the dynamics of AI and the WPS agenda in the region: mitigating the risks of AI systems to advance the FPS agenda, particularly on social media, but also on other tools, such as chatbots and mobile applications; and foster the development of AI tools designed explicitly to support gender-responsive peace, consistent with WPS commitments.
The second report explores cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities in this context to promote cyber resilience and the human and digital rights of women in all their diversity.
“While there is growing awareness of the risks women and girls face in cyberspace, there is little understanding of the impacts of gender on cybersecurity, or the processes and practices used to protect digital systems and networks against cyber risks and their harms,” the report states.
This work differs from previous cybersecurity research because it focuses on human-centric cybersecurity rather than techno-centric cybersecurity, and emphasizes the human factor rather than technical skills as well as the centralization of gender as an essential element of cybersecurity.
Cyber threats are considered gendered in nature, meaning WCSO And Defenders are specifically targeted because of the focus of their work and are likely to be attacked by misogynistic and sexualized harassment, the report said.
The results highlight that digital technologies are at the heart of the work of WCSO And Defenderswhile simultaneously noting that WCSO had higher perceptions and experiences of threat than CSO which do not work on gender and women’s rights.
According to the study, trends indicate that WCSO have a higher threat perception than CSO the largest differences are for online harassment (CSO = 3.46, WCSO = 3.80), trolling (CSO = 3.38, WCSO = 3.67) and doxxing (CSO = 3.46, WCSO = 3.73), in a range of 1 to 5, with five being the greatest threat.
This carried disproportionate risks of disrupting their work, damaging their reputation and even creating harm or injury, all of which contributed to marginalizing women’s voices.
The report recommends increasing knowledge and awareness of gender-based cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities among civil society, governments, private sector actors and other decision-makers. Second, it advises fostering inclusive and collaborative approaches in the development and engagement of cybersecurity policies. Finally, it suggests developing the knowledge and strengthening the capacities of civil society, government, private sector actors and other decision-makers to develop appropriate means of prevention and response to cyberattacks and their disproportionate impacts on WCSO And Defenders.
“Particular attention should be paid to individuals and organizations at risk, such as women’s groups operating in politically unstable contexts affected by conflicts and crises and in situations where civic space is shrinking,” says the report.
UNU Macau And UN Women said training materials based on research findings and consultations with women’s rights advocates in the region would be rolled out, initially in Thailand and Vietnam, with e-learning modules and training manuals which would be accessible to the public in English, Thai And Vietnamese for interested stakeholders from mid-2024.
