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Is Requiring Informed Consent to GenAI Ethical in Humanitarian Response?

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ICTworks _ Thomas Byrnes

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ICTworks (January 27, 2025) published Thomas Byrnes' authored piece titled "Using AI in Humanitarian Contexts: Examining Ethical Challenges" (December 17, 2024), in which he explores AI deployment ethics using Yemen as a case study, discussing identification challenges across 26 different ID types and the tension between informed consent and emergency assistance

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