AI Alignment
Guide
Humanitarian organizations are increasingly turning to AI to address growing needs with limited resources.
This guide, developed jointly by humanitarian practitioners and academic experts, shows how the humanitarian principles can serve as compass to safeguard.
The fundamental principles help practitioners identify risks, navigate trade-offs and make grounded decisions as they explore, design and deploy AI systems.
The
CHITCHAT
Framework
CHITCHAT establishes a principled framework
with which to design, evaluate, and deploy large multimodal language models.
We build chatbots for specialized in humanitarian topics. The framework ensures continuous humanitarian alignment and facilitates critical evaluation of AI models.
This work was funded by the Science and Technology for Humanitarian Action Challenges (HAC) programme from the Engineering for Humanitarian Action (EHA) initiative, a partnership between the ICRC, EPFL and ETH Zurich. EHA initiatives are managed jointly by the ICRC, EPFL EssentialTech Centre and ETH Zurich’s ETH4D.
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Emeline Darçot
Program Manager - EHA
Dr. Emeline Darçot is a project manager at the EssentialTech Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland, which harnesses innovation in support of sustainable development,humanitarian action and peace promotion. She is currently coordinating the Engineering Humanitarian Action programme within the Humanitarian Division.
She holds a PhD in Life Science from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). After a PhD and a postdoctoral position in biomedical imaging at the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV), Emeline joined the EPFL EssentialTech Centre in 2021 as a project coordinator on the Ren’All Care project. She then joined the EPFL Research Office in 2022 as project manager and coordinates since then the Engineering Humanitarian Action programme within the Humanitarian Division of the EssentialTech Centre.