September 2024 – August 2026
As a globally recognized custodian of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), the ICRC is committed to ensuring that new technologies are not adopted at the expense of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence. CHITCHAT establishes a principled framework with which to design, evaluate, and deploy large multimodal language models. Specifically, we build Legotron, an IHL chatbot, and use this framework to ensure continuous humanitarian alignment and facilitate its critical evaluation.
EPFL PI: Prof. Martin Jaggi (Associate Professor, Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory), Prof. Mary-Anne Hartley (Visiting Professor, Yale/EPFL Laboratory of Intelligent Global Health & Humanitarian Response Technologies), Dr. Johan Robert Rochel (Postdoctoral researcher, College of Humanities).
ICRC partner: Mauro Vignati (Adviser Digital Technologies of Warfare)
Other partner(s): Dr. Carmen Alonso (Postdoc researcher in the AI Center at ETH Zurich)
Photo: Copyright: ICRC/Kevin Kaela/29.10.2020/Caption: Kinshasa, Military Staff School. Militaries of the Congolese army during a training session given by the ICRC on international humanitarian law (IHL)./Reference: V-P-CD-E-02713
