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Human Rights, Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence - Challenges for the Next 70 Years of the Universal Declaration

December 3, 2018

See photos from our latest conference, looking at the intersection of technology, ethics, and human rights. 

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Discussing Human Rights, Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence with Harvard Techtopia Students

December 10, 2018

Hear from students participating in Harvard's inaugural Techtopia group on human rights, ethics, and artificial intelligence.... Read more about Discussing Human Rights, Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence with Harvard Techtopia Students



Human Rights in the Face of Emerging Technology

January 2, 2019

In the latest episode of Justice Matters, Vivek Krishnamurthy, Senior Fellow at the Carr Center, discusses the complex challenges of the human rights movement in the face of emerging technology and artificial intelligence.... Read more about Human Rights in the Face of Emerging Technology



Carr Center Human Rights for Policy. 1/1/2019. “Conference Report: Human Rights, Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence.” Human Rights, Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence. See full text.Abstract

Human Rights, Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges for the Next 70 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 

In early December 2018, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society hosted an inaugural conference that aimed to respond to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ 70th Anniversary by reflecting on the past, present and future of human rights. The conference was organized by Carr Center Faculty Director Mathias Risse.



Announcing 2019 Cohort of Technology and Human Rights Fellows

February 11, 2019

The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy announced 15 new resident and visiting fellows an inaugural cohort that will conduct focused research projects on the intersection of new technologies, artificial intelligence, and human rights.

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Mathias Risse. 2/12/2019. Human Rights, Artificial Intelligence and Heideggerian Technoskepticism: The Long (Worrisome?) View. Carr Center Discussion Paper Series. 2019002nd ed. Cambridge: Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. See full text.Abstract

Mathias Risse's explores the impact of artificial intelligence on human rights in his latest discussion paper. 

My concern is with the impact of Artificial Intelligence on human rights. I first identify two presumptions about ethics-and-AI we should make only with appropriate qualifications. These presumptions are that (a) for the time being investigating the impact of AI, especially in the human-rights domain, is a matter of investigating impact of certain tools, and that (b) the crucial danger is that some such tools – the artificially intelligent ones – might eventually become like their creators and conceivably turn against them.  We turn to Heidegger’s influential philosophy of technology to argue these presumptions require qualifications of a sort that should inform our discussion of AI. Next I argue that one major challenge is how human rights will prevail in an era that quite possibly is shaped by an enormous increase in economic inequality. Currently the human-rights movement is rather unprepared to deal with the resulting challenges. What is needed is greater focus on social justice/distributive justice, both domestically and globally, to make sure societies do not fall apart. I also ague that, in the long run, we must be prepared to deal with more types of moral status than we currently do and that quite plausibly some machines will have some type of moral status, which may or may not fall short of the moral status of human beings (a point also emerging from the Heidegger discussion). Machines may have to be integrated into human social and political lives.



Hippocratic Oath for a Digital World: Insights From SSIR’s 2019 Data on Purpose Conference

February 27, 2019

Article in Stanford Social Innovation Review  featuring Carr Center Technology and Human Rights Fellow Alix Dunn.... Read more about Hippocratic Oath for a Digital World: Insights From SSIR’s 2019 Data on Purpose Conference



The Role of Social Media in Shaping Gang Violence

April 1, 2019

In the latest episode of Justice Matters, Carr Center's Executive Director Sushma Raman interviews Carr Center Technology and Human Rights Fellow Desmond Patton on the intersection of social media, ethics, and human rights.

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Salil Shetty. 12/16/2018. “Can Technology deliver freedoms for India’s poor? ”. See full text.Abstract

Talk given by Carr Center's Senior Fellow Salil Shetty at TechFest IIT Bombay.

"My talk today is addressed to concerned citizens who are not experts on the subject. Many of the issues I am touching on require a much more complex and nuanced treatment but this talk is deliberately taking a simpler narrative."

Read Salil Shetty's complete presentation here: https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/files/cchr/files/can_tech_salil_shetty_01.pdf



Transnational Rights Groups Face Promise and Perils of Technology

May 10, 2019

Carr Center’s Sushma Raman on hopes and threats posed by digital advances.... Read more about Transnational Rights Groups Face Promise and Perils of Technology

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