How can civil society safely and ethically adopt AI?
That’s the question many organizations are asking as artificial intelligence tools become more accessible and increasingly incorporated into internal workflows. For resource-constrained civil society organizations (CSOs) and nonprofits, AI presents significant opportunities, from crafting communications and strengthening advocacy strategies to streamlining everyday workflows. But as with any tool, AI also introduces new risks, responsibilities, and ethical considerations.
Through our Light Touch Support and our CATio spaces for the Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, we’re hearing similar questions from across our community. How can we safely incorporate AI into our work? What risks should we be aware of? Should we even be using AI in the context of human rights, social, and environmental justice?
If this sounds familiar — whether you’ve already started using AI tools and want to better protect yourself and your community, feel pressure to adopt them, or are simply using them to check spelling in a second language — we invite you to join our upcoming community call: Using AI safely: practical strategies for CSOs and nonprofits.
Date: April 14, 2026
Time: 3:00 PM UTC
Platform and registration: Zoom registration link
Language: English and Spanish, with interpretation options
During this call, we will share practical steps you can take at both an individual and organizational level to use AI tools more safely. This includes approaches such as data minimization, prompt hygiene, and conducting risk assessments before adopting new tools..
Featured Speakers
We are excited to welcome guest speakers from Latin America and Africa, who will share regional insights and practical approaches to AI safety.
From Latin America, Lupa, sociologist, systems administrator, and digital security consultant from TEDIC will be joining us. They recently developed a resource, Security, privacy and chatbots focused on the safe use of artificial intelligence. We’ll explore this work alongside their broader efforts on AI safety.
TEDIC was founded by a multidisciplinary group dedicated to defending and promoting human rights on the Internet through legal, technical, and policy analysis of internet regulations in Paraguay.
Ashi from Front Line Defenders will also share resources and practical insights developed through accompaniment work with organizations and human rights defenders in Latin America. Ashi is the Digital Protection Coordinator at Front Line Defenders; her professional career has focused on the intersection of technology and gender, with an emphasis on feminist approaches to digital security.
From Africa, Chenai Chair will be joining us. Chenai leads the Masakhane African Languages Hub, championing community-led research, open datasets, and tools built with, and for, Africa.
She also founded My Data Rights, an online portal mapping AI, privacy, and data protection from a feminist perspective.
Who Should Attend
This session is designed for:
- Civil society organizations and nonprofits
- Human rights defenders and activists
- Digital security trainers and practitioners
- Advocacy and communications teams experimenting with AI tools
- Anyone supporting organizations navigating emerging technologies
Whether your organization is already experimenting with AI or just beginning to explore its potential, this conversation offers a grounded starting point for thinking about safe and responsible AI use.
We hope you will join us in this collective learning space as we explore how civil society can approach AI with both curiosity and care.