Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a powerful new tool that has been developed in recent years and is broadly understood as a system with the ability to process data in a way which resembles intelligent behaviour. It is deeply intertwined with culture, heritage, and sustainable development, both through how the tool is created and how it affects our lives.

On the first International Day of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, a webinar is organized on this important topic, with a global panel of experts. It aims to provide an opportunity for a wider audience to understand what AI is, how it may affect sustainable development and safeguarding of living heritage practices by communities, groups and individuals concerned, and what can be done to maximize benefits and mitigate harms for the bearers of intangible cultural heritage. It will present UNESCO’s approach to AI, explaining links between the Recommendation on the Ethics of AI (2021), and the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, and inform audiences about new and ongoing initiatives in this regard.

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