GRF Young Fellows Program
2024 Term First Meeting
January 6, 2024

The GRF Young Scholars Program, which was designed to bring together students pursuing their undergraduate education at leading universities in Turkey and around the world on a platform where they can freely, rationally and constructively discuss and question global issues based on international relations, was re-launched in 2022 with a new format and content under the name GRF Young Fellows Program. 

The first meeting of the GRF Young Fellows Program’s 2023-2024 Term was held on January 6, 2024 at the GRF offices. Following the opening speech by Ambassador (R) Selim Yenel, President of GRF, the participants engaged in fruitful discussions with two alumni of the GRF Young Scholars Program. The first discussion session, moderated by Mehmet Yalçın Aydın (Young Scholars’12), a former McKinsey & Company Consultant who is currently pursuing his MBA at Stanford University, focused on "Technological Singularity"; the rapidly developing pace of artificial intelligence-based technologies that can be integrated into the body, and the risks and gains that they may bring for humanity were discussed.

In the second session, which focused on "Artificial Intelligence and Law", participants held detailed discussions on the approach to be adopted in the governance of artificial intelligence systems and the ethical and legal responsibilities of their use, moderated by Zeynep Ülkü Kahveci (Young Scholars’12), Research Assistant at the Department of Civil Law, Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law.

Mustafa Kılıçaslan, a member of GRF and a Consulting Partner at Mentoro Platform, was the guest speaker at the last part of the meeting and had an engaging conversation with the students on technological transformation.