A United Nations Research Institute created an Avatar of AI refugees

A research institute linked to the United Nations has created two avatars supplied by AI designed to teach people refugee problems.

404 media wrote on Experience conducted by a class at the United Nations University Center for Political Research This led to the creation of two agents or avatars of AI – Amina, a fictitious woman who fled Sudan and lives in a refugee camp in Chad, and Abdalla, a fictitious soldier with the Fast support forcesA paramilitary force in Sudan.

Users are supposed to be able to speak to Amina and Abdalla The Experience WebsiteAlthough I received an error message when I tried to register on Saturday afternoon.

Eduardo Albrecht, professor of Columbia and principal researcher at UNU-CPR, told 404 Media that he and his students “played simply with the concept” and did not offer it as a solution to the UN.

A paper The summary of this work suggested that these avatars could possibly be used “to quickly plead for donors”. However, he also noted that many workshop participants who interacted with the agents had responded negatively, for example by saying that refugees “are very capable of speaking for themselves in real life”.