Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

Abstract

Abstract The scope of Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) hold on modern life is only just beginning to be fully understood. Academics, professionals, policymakers, and legislators are analysing the effects of AI in the legal realm, notably in human rights work. Artificial Intelligence technologies and modern human rights have lived parallel lives for the last sixty years, and they continue to evolve with one another as both fields take shape. Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights explores the effects of AI on both the concept of human rights and on specific topics, including civil and political rights, privacy, non-discrimination, fair procedure, and asylum. Second- and third-generation human rights such as the right to food, right to housing, right to health and right to a healthy environment are also addressed. By mapping this relationship, the book clarifies the benefits and risks for human rights as new AI applications are designed and deployed. After carrying out designated thematic human rights studies of AI impact, the last part of the volume is devoted to systemic and foundational questions at the crossroads of AI and human rights. These reflexive and critical pieces include questions of legal personality, business and human rights regulation, the need for human rights impact assessments, and human rights-conducive experimentation with AI. The coupling of a bird’s eye view with a granular perspective makes Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights a seminal text on the legal ramifications of machine learning.

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