It’s the end of 2025: where are we with GenAI and MERL?
It’s almost the end of 2025, which makes it a good time to take stock of where we are with GenAI and MERL! This blog presents some key trends and happenings from the year.
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- We learn in community: announcing more teaching by MTI!
- Join our End-of-Year CoP Meeting on December 10!
- Tips and tensions: What does it look like to design organizational AI policies (Part 2)
- Event recap: The Humanitarian AI Countdown and operationalising responsible AI with Shivaang Sharma
- Tips and tensions: What does it look like to design organizational AI policies (Part 1)
- Event recap: Evaluating LLMs for accuracy and inclusion
- Launch Recap: Made In Africa Artificial Intelligence Approaches In Monitoring, Evaluation, Research And Learning: A Practitioner Perspective And Landscape Study
- Event: Climate-Responsible AI in Africa – Monitoring Environmental Impacts from Resource Extraction to Action
- Event: Detecting gender bias in AI tools
- Launching our Made in Africa AI for MERL Landscape Study
- Drafting Organizational AI Policies: Tips and Tensions
- Meet our team at AEA Evaluation Conference in November
- If AI solves problems as well as creates them, can one counteract the other?: Honest Discussions at the Intersection of AI and the SDGs
- The Humanitarian AI Countdown: How do humanitarian organizations operationalize Responsible AI with Shivaang Sharma (October 15th 2025 at 3pm BST/10am ET/ 5pm EAT)
- Event Recap – Mapping connections, uncovering complexity: real-world applications of knowledge graphs
- Introducing our new event series – “4,3,2,1: The Humanitarian AI Countdown”
- Join us on Oct 9 for a conversation about evaluating LLMs for accuracy and inclusion
- Event Recap: African languages, linguistic complexity, and ethical and inclusive AI
- Event recap: Accountability in the age of humanitarian AI — A conversation hosted by the MERL Tech Initiative and CDAC Network
- Event: What does the US AI Action Plan mean for the use of AI in the social sector?
- Mapping connections, uncovering complexity: real world applications of knowledge graphs
- Event on August 14: African languages, linguistic complexity and ethical and inclusive AI
- Event recap: Qualitative Researchers Are Not OK: adapting to the use of AI by research respondents