Online-offline referrals to P/CVE services in the age of AI

As online spaces increasingly influence people’s perceptions, identities and social conduct, P/CVE strategies ought to focus on the challenges of online radicalisation and its connection to offline behaviour. Detecting risk patterns in online activities is a prerequisite for providing targeted and effective prevention services.
This session aims at exploring the opportunities, as well as practical and ethical challenges, Artificial Intelligence offers within online-offline-referral structures based on insights from Violence Prevention Network’s “Diversions” model for online-offline referrals. “Diversions” builds a bridge between 1) tech platforms who can identify on-platform behaviours that indicate propensity to violence or risk of radicalisation; 2) Violence Prevention Network’s centralised off-ramp service; and 3) practitioner support offering long-term behaviour change interventions.
Including international perspectives from our practitioners, academic and tech partners, we will address questions regarding potential applications of AI to detect and triage cases for online-offline referral and/or online engagement, as well as safeguards needed to address data protection, ethical, and other challenges.