Geneva AI Attaché: Technology for inclusive, informed and impactful diplomacy

Small and developing countries often find themselves overshadowed in the complex multilateral negotiations. Picture a small mission with just a handful of diplomats trying to keep pace with the multitude of parallel diplomatic processes at the UN in Geneva and New York. Representatives of civil society, academia, and businesses face similar challenges. Geneva AI Attaché uses groundbreaking AI technology to facilitate inclusive, informed, and impactful participation in multilateral diplomacy in International Geneva and other UN hubs.

The role of AI in diplomacy

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds immense potential to transform the way diplomacy is conducted. Geneva AI Attaché is at the forefront of this transformation, offering a suite of tools that assist permanent missions to the UN in Geneva and other actors. By automating preparations, reporting, and other tasks in numerous diplomatic processes, AI allows diplomats to focus on the core of diplomacy: engaging, persuading, and resolving conflicts.

Three phases of diplomatic support

Geneva AI Attaché supports three crucial phases of each diplomatic process:

1. Preparation: AI assists diplomatic officials in preparing agendas, gathering background information, and drafting official statements. The platform generates comprehensive meeting briefs that include executive summaries, country priorities, negotiating tactics, proposals, and risk analyses.
2. Participation: AI provides just-in-time access to knowledge and information based on previous UN document repository, survey of similar countries’ positions on issues, media coverage, and statistical data. In particular, AI can help overcoming negotiation impasses by providing procedural and substantial proposals.
3. Follow-up: After meetings, AI helps diplomats by transcribing audio or video recordings, generating comprehensive reports, and analysing national statements. This phase ensures that decisions and outcomes are effectively tracked and acted upon.

Visualising diplomatic positions

Geneva AI Attaché offers powerful visualisation tools to map national positions in relation to other countries on specific issues. For instance, it can create heat maps of countries’ positions on agenda items covered at ITU digital negotiations or map the position of countries in cybersecurity negotiations.

Enhancing capacity and skills

Beyond supporting small diplomatic missions, the Geneva AI Attaché project aims to build capacities, skills, and competencies for the forthcoming UN and diplomatic world AI transformations. By innovatively integrating artificial and human intelligence, this platform creates a rich repository of documents, videos, knowledge models, and other AI tools that can be used for future projects and activities.

Next steps

The Geneva AI Attaché represents a significant leap forward in leveling the diplomatic playing field for small countries and other actors. By harnessing the power of AI, their voices can be heard and interests represented in global negotiations. As we look to the future, The Geneva AI Attaché stands as a beacon of innovation and empowerment in the world of diplomacy.