January 2025 – December 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. Mary-Anne Hartley (Professor at EPFL at the LiGHT Laboratory: Laboratory for Intelligent Global Health & Humanitarian Technologies), Prof. Martin Jaggi, Dr. Johan Robert Rochel (Postdoctoral researcher, College of Humanities).
ICRC partner: Mauro Vignati (Adviser Digital Technologies of Warfare)
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
