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Human Rights and Artificial Intelligence: An Urgently Needed Agenda
- Human Rights Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 41, Number 1, February 2019
- pp. 1-16
- 10.1353/hrq.2019.0000
- Article
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ABSTRACT:
The increasing presence of artificial intelligence creates enormous challenges for human rights. Among the short-term challenges are ways in which technology engages just about all rights on the UDHR, as exemplified through use of effectively discriminatory algorithms. Medium-term challenges include changes in the nature of work that could call into question many people’s status as participants in society. In the long-term humans may have to live with machines that are intellectually and possibly morally superior, even though this is highly speculative. Artificial intelligence also gives a new relevance to moral debates that used to strike many as arcane.