AI for Good: How the UN uses AI to advance human rights | UN News
AI for Good: How the UN uses AI to advance human rights | UN News
摘要: AI for Good: How the UN uses AI to advance human rights
Isaiah Steinberg
21 August 2026
Human Rights
For Ari, a six-year-old boy with
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AI for Good: How the UN uses AI to advance human rights
Isaiah Steinberg
21 August 2026
Human Rights
For Ari, a six-year-old boy with
learning difficulties in Jamaica
, artificial intelligence (AI) opened the door to something many children take for granted: reading a book in his own language. Thousands of miles away, gold miners in Ethiopia are being screened more quickly for tuberculosis, while communities around the world are breathing cleaner air thanks to faster detection of methane leaks.
Across agencies, the UN is implementing AI tools to help promote peace, security and human rights while spearheading the global conversation around AI governance.
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Six-year-old Ari in Jamaica has learning difficulties which make it difficult for him to study, but now AI technology is converting existing textbooks into interactive formats personalised to his needs.
“The real impact is what this means for children,” Pia Rebello Britto,
’s Global Director of Education and Adolescent Development, told
UN News.
“There are countless more examples like Ari’s, showing what becomes possible when digital learning is designed to reach every child.”
For UNICEF, implementing AI means putting the communities it supports at the centre of its technology development process.
The agency worked with advocacy groups to design its
Accessible Digital Textbooks for All (ADT)
initiative, which tackles a persistent barrier in global education: inaccessible learning materials for the nearly 240 million children worldwide living with disabilities.
While the programme existed before AI’s rapid rise, today’s AI-assisted version now operates in 17 countries, reaching nearly two million children, with a goal of expanding to 50 countries by 2030. Six countries have already joined this year.
Putting a brake on methane
Methane is one of the gases that is contributing to global warming.
“Everybody – every person, citizen – anywhere in the world who is conc