Artificial intelligence & digital citizenship - For ethical AI that respects human rights
Amina BOUAYACH
The National Human Rights Council (CNDH) considers human rights relevant to artificial intelligence within an international context characterized by a holistic reflection on this matter. Numerous initiatives from international, regional, and national bodies are developing. From a systemic perspective, approaching this topic requires first establishing a definition of industrial intelligence. While it may prove challenging to find a comprehensive and conventional definition, given the multiple angles of approach, we have adopted the following definition:
“Artificial Intelligence is both a scientific field (integrating multiple scientific ranges: Mathematics, informatics, neurology, psychology, engineering, sociology…) that aims to create a technological equivalent to human intelligence, on the one hand; and autonomous intelligent systems with algorithms capable of performing actions that have so far been created exclusively by humans, or that help or make decisions or self-learn through the data at their disposal, on the other”.
Artificial intelligence is thus amongst the mechanisms to facilitate the enjoyment of fundamental rights and freedoms by citizens. However, the uses of artificial intelligence are not devoid of risks to certain rights and freedoms, namely the right to physical integrity and integrity of data, the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the right to access information, the right to privacy, consumer rights, equality and non-discrimination, protection of vulnerable groups (e.g., children, persons with disabilities), the right to physical and psychological integrity, freedom of elections, the right to employment, freedom of assembly, freedom of peaceful demonstration, ...
The Council shares the conviction of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights that “Artificial intelligence can be a force for good, helping societies overcome some of the great challenges of our times. But AI technologies can have negative, even catastrophic, effects if used without sufficient regard to how they affect people’s human rights... This is why there needs to be systematic assessment and monitoring of the effects of AI systems to identify and mitigate human rights risks”.
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Submitted date:
09/01/2021
Reviewed date:
09/30/2021
Accepted date:
09/30/2021
Publication date:
09/22/2021
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