Can we move beyond the AI hype to defend human rights?
Blog post by Daniel Leufer. Published by Access Now. From October 2019 to July 2020, I was hosted by Access Now as a Mozilla Fellow. During this time, I worked . . .
Human Rights
Stopping Killer Robots: Country Positions on Banning Fully Autonomous Weapons and Retaining Human Control
Report researched and written by Mary Wareham, advocacy director in the arms division at Human Rights Watch. Wareham coordinates the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, the international coalition of more . . .
Speculative Human Rights: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Human
Journal Article by James Dawes. Published in Human Rights Quarterly. Abstract: This essay takes seriously the claims of many experts in artificial intelligence that AGI (artificial general intelligence) could emerge . . .
OECD to host Secretariat of new Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence
Press release from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The OECD will host the Secretariat of the new Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), a coalition launched today that . . .
Governments Aren’t Yet Serious About AI’s Risk to Human Rights
News Article by Edmund L. Andrews. Published on the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence website. Excerpt: In the rush to develop national strategies on artificial intelligence, a new report . . .
Harvard Carr Center Announces Technology and Human Rights Advisory Committee and New Technology and Human Rights Fellows
News Article. Published on the Carr Center website. The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School is proud to announce a new advisory committee composed of . . .
National Artificial Intelligence Strategies and Human Rights: A Review
Report published by Global Partners Digital and Stanford University Global Digital Policy Incubator. Examines governments’ National AI Strategies from a human rights perspective. 61 pages. Summary: The report looks at . . .
Robot Rights?: Let’s Talk about Human Welfare Instead
Conference paper by Abeba Birhane and Jelle van Dijk. Presented at the 2020 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. Abstract: The ‘robot rights’ debate, and its related question of . . .
AI for Peace
Organization mission: At AI for Peace, we believe AI has the potential to change our lives substantially in the next decade. It can lead to rapid improvement of our lives . . .
Human Rights and Technology: Discussion Paper (2019)
Report by the Australian Human Rights Commission. 232 pages. Foreword from the Human Rights Commissioner This Discussion Paper sets out the Australian Human Rights Commission’s preliminary views on protecting and . . .
World Economic Forum: Global Future Council on Human Rights and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Organization mission: The evolutionary gap between technical progress and human rights promotion is expanding as quickly as the emergence of new technologies, with human rights organizations struggling to keep up . . .
The underdog in the AI ethical and legal debate: human autonomy
News article by Rowena Rodrigues and Anaïs Rességuier, Trilateral Research. Published on the Ethics Dialogue Blog, Human Brain Project. Excerpt: Advances in AI will have serious and lasting consequences for . . .