Asst. Prof. Dr. Ş. Barış Özçelik of the Faculty of Law has been selected as the first self-nominated expert from Türkiye by the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) for the period of 2024–2027.
The GPAI, the secretariat of which is undertaken by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), was launched in June 2020 and currently has 29 members including Türkiye. It is a multistakeholder initiative bringing together governments and international organizations, as well as leading experts from science, industry and civil society, with the aim of bridging the gap between theory and practice on AI.
The self-nominated experts are selected by the Multistakeholder Experts Group Plenary considering their competence in certain aspects of AI and do not represent their organization or country.