Opportunities of A.I. for Human Rights

A.I. development and deployment aiming at the good for the individual and at the collective global public good, have the potential to help better promote and protect human rights, for example:

-          the right to health,

through A.I. triggered breakthroughs in medical research, more accurate disease detection and diagnosis, data-based decision making, more personalized treatment in real time and the use of surgical robotics;

-          the right to food,

through A.I. empowered progress in agriculture, data science-based prediction models; plant disease detection; smart weather stations; wildlife monitoring;

-          the right to education,

through increased accessibility and availability of education, especially for women and girls, as well as persons in vulnerable situations; through enabling more personalized learning, quicker and more detailed feedback on performance, enhanced efficiency for teachers and access to vast knowledge resources;

-          the right to participate in government and free elections,

through data-based decision making for policy and legislative processes; predictive data-based simulations, improved connections for citizens with public administrations and infrastructures and better access to public services;

-          the rights of persons with disabilities,

through enabling them to identify accessible routes around their location; through enhancing the personal mobility of visually impaired persons with navigation tools powered by A.I.;

-          the right to seek, receive and impart information,

through allowing individuals to collect and receive information much more efficiently and through providing opportunities for human rights-based responses to disinformation and misinformation;

-          the rights of human rights defenders (HRD),

through allowing broader and more effective monitoring of violations and abuses of human rights, and helping them gather and analyze information at a much quicker rate;

-          The right to adequate housing,

through improving disaster risk management, facilitating in-home, residential and other community support services and through improving accessibility of the housing environment.

Initiatives like the ITU’s “A.I. for Good – Global Summit” (30-31 May 2024) document positive examples of beneficial A.I. use.