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Artificial intelligence and human rights
The use and abuse of AI and automated decision-making can not only facilitate human rights violations and exacerbate existing societal power imbalances, but also open new risks, disproportionately affecting marginalized people and communities. AI design, development, and deployment must respect human rights. We urge governments and companies to follow binding, enforceable legal frameworks rooted in human rights law and principles, not voluntary or self-regulatory ethics-based approaches.
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Bodily harms: how AI and biometrics curtail human rights
This report explores how AI is driving the adoption of ableist technologies that marginalize anyone who doesn’t fit into their definition of a “normal” body.
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SPOTLIGHT: EU AI ACT
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Artificial Intelligence
The EU AI Act proposal: a timeline
A summary of our proposed amendments to the draft EU AI Act and a timeline of our related commentary and recommendations.
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Artificial Intelligence
The EU AI Act: How to (truly) protect people on the move
The EU AI Act is supposed to protect the rights of everyone impacted by AI systems. But it ignores the systems impacting people on the move. Here are three steps policymakers can take to fix that problem.
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Artificial Intelligence
The EU needs an Artificial Intelligence Act that protects fundamental rights
Access Now and over 110 civil society organisations have laid out proposals to make sure the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act addresses the real-world impacts of the use of artificial intelligence.
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Artificial Intelligence
The EU should regulate AI on the basis of rights, not risks
Artificial intelligence and automated decision-making systems threaten our fundamental rights. Yet the EU is considering an approach to AI regulation that would substitute rights-based protections for a mere risk mitigation exercise by corporations with a vested interest in these systems. Here’s why that’s a grave mistake.
Resources
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Artificial Intelligence
What you need to know about generative AI and human rights
Generative AI has been all over the headlines. But what are the human rights implications? Get the facts in our generative AI FAQ.
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Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence: what are the issues for digital rights?
You may have a basic understanding of what AI is. But are you familiar with the issues it raises for your fundamental rights?
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Artificial Intelligence
Fighting systemic racism in the digital age: a global challenge
On Human Rights Day of 2020, we highlight the mandate of E. Tendayi Achiume, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance to fight systematic racism.
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Digital Security
Track and target: FAQ on Myanmar CCTV cameras and facial recognition
The military junta in Myanmar is rolling out China-made CCTV cameras with facial recognition capabilities to intensify surveillance against the people.
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Artificial Intelligence
Computers are binary, people are not: how AI systems undermine LGBTQ identity
Most of us interact with some sort of Artificial Intelligence (AI) system several times a day, whether it’s using the predictive text function on our phones or applying a selfie
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Artificial Intelligence
Algorithmic decision-making in the U.S. needs accountability
Access Now endorses the Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2022, which will help combat algorithmic discrimination in defense of human rights.
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Artificial Intelligence
Instead of banning facial recognition, some governments in Latin America want to make it official
Buenos Aires, Brasilia, and Uruguay are pushing for use of facial recognition systems for “public security,” seeking to authorize the invasive and harmful use of mass surveillance tools. Civil society must fight back.
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AI ‘resurrects’ long dead dictator in murky era of deepfake electioneering
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London underground is testing real-time AI surveillance tools to spot crime
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EU set to allow draconian use of facial recognition tech, say lawmakers
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Are social media platforms ready for record elections in 2024?
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Deepfakes set to deceive voters in India ahead of national elections
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Artificial intelligence: four debates to expect in 2024
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Human rights protections…with exceptions: what’s (not) in the EU’s AI Act deal
The E.U. just agreed to (not quite a) deal on the AI Act. But what’s in it? What’s missing? And what happens now?
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Why the AI Act was so hard to pass
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E.U. reaches deal on world’s first comprehensive AI rules
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How to protect black and brown lives in the age of AI?
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The Gospel: Israel turns to a new AI system in the Gaza war
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The EU just passed sweeping new rules to regulate AI
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Human Rights 75 pledges and vision on the future of human rights
Access Now welcomes this opportunity to provide relevant information to the United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to inform the High Commissioner’s Vision on the Future of Human Rights in the framework of the Human Rights 75 Initiative.
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Europe reaches deal on world’s first comprehensive AI rules
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EU’s AI talks sputter over intrusive security loopholes
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Civil society joint statement: Europe’s (digital) borders must fall
Civil society is calling for an end to the expansion of EURODAC, the EU database for the registration of asxylum-seekers. EURODAC is being transformed into an expansive, violent surveillance tool that will treat people seeking protection as crime suspects.