Governments Aren’t Yet Serious About AI’s Risk to Human Rights
In the rush to develop national strategies on artificial intelligence, a new report finds, most governments pay lip service to civil liberties.
From the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) blog:
More than 25 governments around the world, including those of the United States and across the European Union, have adopted elaborate national strategies on artificial intelligence — how to spur research; how to target strategic sectors; how to make AI systems reliable and accountable.
Yet a new analysis finds that almost none of these declarations provide more than a polite nod to human rights, even though artificial intelligence has potentially big impacts on privacy, civil liberties, racial discrimination, and equal protection under the law.
That’s a mistake, says Eileen Donahoe, executive director of Stanford’s Global Digital Policy Incubator, which produced the report in conjunction with a leading international digital rights organization called Global Partners Digital.
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