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AI and the 'human' in human rights

Generative AI promises to disrupt and profoundly transform the world. For the human rights community, it raises both existential questions and urgent practical challenges.

Generative AI promises to disrupt and profoundly transform the world. For the human rights community, it raises both existential questions and urgent practical challenges.

In this series by OGR, ambiguity is the dominant tone in the emerging discussion about the effects of models like ChatGPT on human rights. Generative artificial intelligence can increase misinformation and lies online, but it can also be a formidable tool for legally exercising freedom of expression; it can protect or undermine the rights of migrants and refugees, depending on whether it is used to monitor them or detect patterns of abuse against them; and it can be useful for traditionally marginalized groups, but it also increases the risks of discrimination against communities like the LGBTQI+, whose fluid identities do not fit into the algorithmic boxes of artificial intelligences. 

 

ChatGPT: What’s left of the human in human rights?

By: César Rodríguez-Garavito
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This new series examines the potential effects of AI in the human rights field.

Queer Eye for AI: Risks and limitations of artificial intelligence for the sexual and gender diverse community

By: Ilia Savelev
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The risks of AI-powered oppression of sexual and gender diversity are already here.

Borders and AI: Human rights–enhancing legal technologies

By: Sean Rehaag
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AI does have the capacity to be used to help asylum seekers and other people on the move, despite its current uses.

No easy answers to the ChatGPT regulatory puzzle

By: Matt Bartlett
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Any legal framework aiming to corral generative AI systems, including frameworks grounded on protecting human rights, will need to reckon with technological nuances.

Regulation of generative AI must protect freedom of expression

By: Esha Bhandari
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Any attempts to regulate the content produced by generative AI run the risk of restricting protected expression.

When human rights turned into an AI-driven game of lottery

By: Juan Ortiz Freuler
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The widespread adoption of artificial intelligence is fueling a probabilistic turn that shifts the focus from past to future, from individual to group behavior, ...

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