AI in social protection – now and tomorrow
Where can AI generate the biggest benefits for social protection systems? What are the challenges and risks? And what’s the way forward? A three-day workshop in Bangkok in November 2024 brought together participants from around the world to brainstorm these and other questions.
This blog was originally published in January 2025 on socialprotection.org
Event
The three-day workshop titled “AI4SocialProtection – Overcoming Challenges and Creating Opportunities” was co-hosted by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the Digital Convergence Initiative (DCI), and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), the World Bank (WB), and the International Social Security Association (ISSA), co-funded by the European Commission, the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation & Development (BMZ) and ADB.
The event provided a collaborative platform for participants to share insights, explore innovative approaches, and strategize on the use of AI to enhance social protection systems. It gives space for a comprehensive overview of digital social protection use cases, enablers, and discussions on the potential as well as challenge, associated risks, and ethical implications of AI adoption in social protection. By bringing together experts and stakeholders, it seeks to lay the groundwork for leveraging AI to improve social protection outcomes.
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