Global Information Society Watch 2019
Artificial intelligence: Human rights, social justice and development
CREDITS
Operational team
Valeria Betancourt (APC) Alan Finlay (APC)
Mallory Knodel (ARTICLE 19) Vidushi Marda (ARTICLE 19) Maja Romano (APC)
Preface
Sixty years after machines started beating humans at strategy board games, this edition of Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) focuses on the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) systems on human rights, social justice and sustainable development.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now receiving unprecedented global attention as it finds widespread practical application in multiple spheres of activity. But what are the human rights, social justice and development implications of AI when used in areas such as health, education and social services, or in building “smart cities”? How does algorithmic decision making impact on marginalised people and the poor?
Artificial intelligence for sustainable human development
Introduction
The weaponisation of AI: An existential threat to human rights and dignity
Introduction
Radicalising the AI governance agenda[1]
What’s missing in mainstream global debates on AI governance
Decolonising AI: A transfeminist approach to data and social justice
Automating informality: On AI and labour in the global South
Introduction
AI policing of people, streets and speech
Introduction
An area in which artificial intelligence (AI) systems are producing a direct effect on the enjoyment of human rights today is the use of these systems for the alleged intention of protecting public safety and making justice systems more efficient and objective.
Defending food sovereignty in the digital era
Introduction