Between threat and reinforcement How will AI affect the future of human rights?

Introduction

The technological revolution is changing our lives at a phenomenal speed, dramatically changing the ways we work, learn, and even those we live together. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is undergoing massive growth and finding new applications in a growing number of sectors, including security, environment, research, education, health, culture and trade, along with the increasingly complex use of big data.

The term artificial intelligence (AI) refers to systems or devices that simulate human intelligence to perform tasks and that can improve themselves based on the information they collect. Artificial intelligence manifests itself in a number of forms. Of which; Chat robots use artificial intelligence to understand customer problems faster and provide more efficient answers, and AI-based users use it to analyze critical information from a large set of textual data to improve scheduling, and recommendation engines can provide automated recommendations for TV shows based on users' viewing habits.

Thus, AI is more about the ability to think critically and analyze data than it is about a specific shape or function. Although AI provides images of the high-performance, human-like robots that are taking over the world, it is not intended to replace humans. It aims to greatly enhance human capabilities and contributions. Which makes it a very valuable business asset.

The applications of artificial intelligence play an important role in our daily life by facilitating the provision of various services to citizens in a way that reflects positively on their economic and social rights. Despite this, a group of human rights concerns have arisen related to the negative effects of these applications on human rights and the related actions. The activities undertaken by governments in the field of artificial intelligence have negative effects related to the rights to privacy, religious freedom, freedom of belief, opinion and expression, and peaceful assembly. Artificial intelligence technologies arm governments with unprecedented capabilities to monitor and track individuals. Even governments in democracies with strong traditions in the rule of law find The same tend to misuse these new capabilities, and on the other hand, in countries with institutions that are not accountable for repeated violations of human rights in the absence of transparency, artificial intelligence systems are likely to cause further setbacks for basic rights and freedoms. For example, some governments use the application Facial recognition based on artificial intelligence technology to suppress the right of pain And citizens in the practice of peaceful assembly in addition to arresting and tracking them.

In addition to providing comprehensive and accurate monitoring capabilities, artificial intelligence can assist governments in manipulating available information and spreading misleading information in order to achieve political goals. For example, artificial intelligence supports deep fakes technology where algorithms create realistic video and audio falsifications that affect citizens' opinions as well as The right to form and develop this opinion and how to infer it, and in a related context, some applications of artificial intelligence contribute to perpetuating racism and bad stereotypical biases towards minorities and marginalized groups at risk in societies through algorithmic biases present in the services that depend on some of these applications. For example, the police have adopted American artificial intelligence techniques to predict crimes and identify suspects, but these predictions are often biased, which leads to unfair results such as the wrong determination that African Americans are more likely to commit crimes than other groups, and this comes in conjunction with targeting the privacy of women through the contents of approved revenge porn The DeepNude app should undress the application by spoofing the photos Women took nude pictures and posted them on the Internet.

In this context, the various parties, including states, movements, and non-state actors, including terrorist movements, are working to develop systems that use artificial intelligence to serve their military purposes, thus contributing to an increase in the frequency of human rights violations, especially in the conflict environment in which many extremist terrorist currents are active, as well as the absence of accountability. Consecration of impunity in the event of total reliance on these systems that do not have any human feelings, which increases their danger because they are designed to fight, and in the context the use of drones contributed to the commission of human rights violations targeting the direct killing of some civilians in addition to the destruction of the infrastructure, from all military sides On the other hand, artificial intelligence applications are used to enhance the health rights of citizens, improve disease overcoming and save citizens in the event of public disasters, as some of these applications are used in the fight against heart disease, and this comes in conjunction with the role of these applications in predicting disasters and dealing with them in a way that enhances the right People in life, in addition to its pioneering role in helping the first groups in parishes, especially those with needs, etc. As the applications of artificial intelligence spread on mobile phones allow blind people to communicate with the world better in all aspects of their lives, and this enhances their ability to communicate with others and supports their rights.

Based on the above, this study discusses the future of basic human rights in light of the growing use of artificial intelligence applications in the daily life of citizens, including negative and positive effects. These applications contribute to achieving transitional justice and enhancing the accountability of governments for their human rights violations. For example, a human rights organization is now using machine learning resulting from artificial intelligence algorithms to investigate alleged war crimes occurring in Yemen. In this context, the study sheds light on biases. The knowledge generated by artificial intelligence and its impact on marginalized groups in societies, including black-skinned people and women, and it also addresses the concerns raised about the use of artificial intelligence in the military industries from the promotion of lack of accountability and the prevalence of the climate of impunity, and in the end the study presents applications of artificial intelligence It enhances the citizens' capacities and their health and social rights, in addition to enhancing the human right to Life and rescue based on various environmental disaster prediction applications.

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