UNDP 2025 AI Trust and Safety Re-imagination Programme

The AI Trust and Safety Re-imagination Programme invites innovators across the public and private sectors to collectively re-imagine T&S, through measures that both prioritize equitable and practical approaches and foster shared, public–private sector responsibility. The programme aims to advance T&S beyond reactive measures, by creating practices that actively anticipate and prevent harm, and create safer development environments. These practices ought to be tailored to the sensitivities of local contexts and the needs of impacted communities.

• Table of Content
• About United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
• AI Trust and Safety Re-imagination Programme
• Aim and Benefits of AI Trust and Safety Re-imagination Programme
• Requirements for AI Trust and Safety Re-imagination Programme Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for AI Trust and Safety Re-imagination Programme
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

UNDP works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion. We help countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities and build resilience in order to sustain development results. This is a critical time for the world. At UNDP, we see this period as a huge opportunity to advance the global sustainable development agenda. In September 2015, world leaders adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all ... continue reading

AI Trust and Safety Re-imagination Programme

Aim and Benefits of AI Trust and Safety Re-imagination Programme

Applicants with successful submissions will have an opportunity to:

1. Present their ideas in a multi-stakeholder forum consisting of leading AI researchers, experts, and innovators who can validate and potentially support implementation of their ideas at scale.  
2. Engage with government stakeholders and experts to co-design and test collaborative strategies towards re-imagining AI Trust and Safety in different regional contexts.
3. Join UNDP’s AI Trust and Safety community, contribute to thought leadership publications and participate in programming development initiatives through the AI Hub for Sustainable Development and other related activities.

Requirements for AI Trust and Safety Re-imagination Programme Qualification

Submissions are encouraged from innovators working at the intersection of AI and T&S, which may range from prototypes, unpublished or recently published research, to a fully-fledged product or solution that has been deployed. Successful submissions must function beyond the ideation stage and demonstrate substantive outputs or findings.

Submissions are also welcome from individuals with significant expertise from private sector companies, startups, industry leaders integrating with AI in their business sectors, relevant civil society groups, research institutions, universities and other similar organizations.  

Teams applying could comprise of a university department, corporate R&D teams, non-governmental organizations working in the field of T&S, industry alliances, think tanks, etc. Please note that only up to three people may present for a team and one of the team members must be an English speaker (see submission requirements below).  

Applicants should currently be working on impactful research, interventions or solutions in one of the following areas:

• Scalable local insights and solutions: Approaches to T&S that are sensitive and adaptive to local contexts and industries. Examples may include a locally specific taxonomy of AI harms; red-teaming for language-specific vulnerabilities; and interventions specific to auditing for AI fraud in the finance sector.
• Local risk forecasting and prevention: Projects that forecast AI risk by leveraging local knowledge on the digital risk and vulnerabilities landscape, or projects that seek to develop locally focused, proactive strategies (e.g. technical AI auditing systems for business-to-business (B2B) financial industry scams in local languages).
• Shared responsibility: Public–private collaborative approaches to AI escalations and risk management practices that impact developing countries and distribute risk and responsibility (e.g. product-feedback mechanisms).

Interview date, Process and Venue for AI Trust and Safety Re-imagination Programme

Submissions should be in the form of a slide presentation (e.g. PowerPoint or PDF) with no more than 10 slides, or an abstract paper (e.g. in Microsoft Word or PDF) with no more than three pages, single-spaced.  

The submissions should demonstrate:

• Alignment with the objectives of the programme and proven experience to deliver impact;
• Awareness of the AI and T&S landscape with demonstrable understanding of local AI Trust and Safety challenges;
• Proven skills, experience, relationships and expertise needed to re-imagine AI Trust and Safety in developing countries. Submissions addressing AI Trust and Safety for a specific region should be able to demonstrate an existing equitable partnership that validates the local relevancy of their work;
• Clarity of impact and focus and realistic understanding of regional challenges and potential impact, including limitations. Note: Effectiveness in a specific industry or with a specific population is highly valued;
• A collaborative approach, strong cross-functional thinking and strategies that enable partnership-driven impact;

Application Timeline:

Round 1

Submissions open: 20 January 2025
Submission deadline: 20 February 2025

Round 2

Submission deadline: 20 March 2025

Round 3

Submission deadline: 24 April 2025

Round 4

Submission deadline: 22 May 2025

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, visit UNDP website