GC REAIM Commissioner

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Jimena Sofía Viveros Álvarez is a distinguished International Lawyer and Scholar, Trusted Expert Advisor on AI and Peace and Security. She is the Founder, Managing Director and CEO of IQuilibriumAI, a Consultancy Firm specialized on AI and Peace and Security matters. Ms. Viveros is also a Member of the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence (AI), tasked with advancing recommendations for the Global Governance of AI and Institutional Responses. Additionally, she is a Commissioner within the Global Commission on Responsible AI in the Military Domain (GC-REAIM), and an AI Expert for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), participating in the working groups on AI risks and accountability, as well as in the group on AI incidents. Ms. Viveros is also an Expert for the AI Safety and Governance Program of the Internet Conference Specialized Committee on AI and serves on the Advisory Board of the Cyber Peace Institute, and a Member of the ITU Women and Standards Network as well as in the UNESCO Women 4 Ethics Platform.

Her international experience includes the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia for the disarmament of the FARC. She has also worked for the Lebanese Supreme Court, in addition to NGOs in Kenya, Cambodia and Palestine. In Mexico, she has served as Chief of Staff and Head Legal Advisor at the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice, and at the Federal Judicial Council. Additionally, she has held senior national leadership positions at the Ministry of Security and Civilian Protection, and at the Federal Tax and Finance Prosecutor’s Office, serving at the level of Director General.

Ms. Viveros acquired her law degree at the Iberoamerican University in Mexico City, earned her LL.M. in Public International Law from Leiden University and holds over 20 Certifications from Expert Trainings on AI, Peace and Security, Public Administration and International Law. Currently, she is finalizing her Doctorate at Cologne University, supervised by Dr. Claus Kreß, on the impact of AI and Autonomous Weapons Systems on the International Peace and Security Law and Policy Framework with concrete propositions to mitigate their risks and achieve Global Governance from different legal perspectives.

She speaks 5 languages and is a widely published author on different areas of law as well as on AI and Autonomous Weapons Systems, highlighting the following books and articles on the latter: Autonomous Weapons Systems: The Accountability Conundrum, published in 2021 by the Legal Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico separately in English and Spanish; The Ultimate and Perhaps the Last Paradigm Shift – Artificial Intelligence, published in 2021 by Wolters Kluwer separately in English and Spanish; AI and the International Responsibility of

States, published in 2022 by the Legal Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Spanish; Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Use of Force, published in 2023 by Ethics Press in English; Drone Swarms as Weapons of Mass Destruction, published in April 2024 by Opinio Juris in English; The Risks and Inefficacies of AI systems in Military Target Identification, published in September 2024 by the International Committee of the Red Cross’ Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog in English; and, Why Should the UN “Govern AI for Humanity”: What is at Stake and what is the Urgency?, published in November 2024 by Opinio Juris in English.

Ms. Viveros is also an internationally renowned High-Profile Public Speaker, having addressed Keynote Speeches or participated in High Level Panels in over 40 events worldwide, in addition to having delivered myriad lectures and conducted numerous seminars and trainings to prestigious governmental and academic institutions, as well as private actors. She also is part of sundry Networks of multidisciplinary and specialized experts, as she is part of over 15 professional and academic associations in an array of capacities.