Description

The lecture discusses opportunities and challenges relating to actual and potential human rights consequences of the use of, or failure to use AI systems. It considers shortcomings in existing human rights frameworks – including, the paucity of new and fit-for-purpose human rights legislation, and the inability of existing human rights to fully capture those features unique to AI systems (such as black boxes and lack of humanity) and to effectively govern the operation of AI companies.

The lecture identifies a list of 7 principles – access, data protection, prohibition of bias, transparency, prohibition of manipulation, human interaction and accountability – which could be included in a future International AI Bill of Human Rights and addresses the ways by which such a list can emerge in the future, including through informal (or “soft law”) norm creation processes.