Girls Sc(AI)ence 7: Conversations on how AI is eroding human rights (and what can we do about it)

An online lecture in the serie Girls Just Want To Have Sc(AI)ence.

Topic: Conversations on how AI is eroding human rights (and what can we do about it)

Invited speaker: Sue Anne Teo, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and Faculty of Law, Lund University

When: March 24th, 10.00  to 11:15

Where: hybrid - link by registration

• On site:  at LUX B:339, Department of Philosophy, Lux, Helgonavägen 3 Lund
• Online on zoom

Abstract

As AI increasingly plays a larger role in daily lives and in society, it is inevitable that human rights issues will arise in relation to its use. Concerns around its impacts on human rights, such as non-discrimination, right to private life, freedom of assembly, freedom of expression and other rights have been highlighted by scholars and policymakers. However, focusing on the impacts of AI on discrete rights is a necessary but insufficient way to account for how AI challenges human rights.

AI can introduce novel forms of harms and the grasp of existing human rights over such harms remain slippery as new technologically mediated realities call into question how human rights are being impacted, what counts as human rights violations and who are violating human rights, posing second-order challenges towards the fitness of the human rights framework. 

I will examine how these concerns pose foundational challenges for human rights, undermining the conceptual, contextual and normative foundations of the human rights law framework. This problem-finding approach can help to lay the key steps to take for a human rights framework that is fit(ter) for the age of AI.

Registration

To participate is free of charge. Registration for online lecture or for both lecture and workshop on-site in Lund at ai.lu.se.

Deadline for signing up to attend on-site is March 18^th

About the workshop series

While feminist approaches to technoscience are getting increasing attention, fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Human-Robot Interaction and Human-Computer Interaction are still male-dominated. Similarly, new technologies, from assistive robots to chatbots, are often imbued with the same intrinsic gender and ethnic stereotypes and biases present in our Western society. An increasing number of scholars have thus called for a feminist reboot, praising more ethical, sustainable and inclusive research practices and epistemologies in the hope of better technology. Our workshop series "Girls just want to have Sc(AI)ence" aims to foster knowledge and discussions on critical and feminist approaches to technology by engaging scholars working with AI from a variety of disciplines -from data science to art, political studies and philosophy, and invite them to reflect and imagine together how to use tools and theories from critical and feminist studies to implement more thcial, sustainable and inclusive technology-related practices and research.
More info can be found here: https://www.ai.lu.se/GIRLSCAIENCE 

This event is sponsored by WASP HS and Lund university profile area Natural and Artificial Cognition