Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Pages: 247-256

Vol. 7 No. 2

July, 2021

ISSN 2410-3918

Acces online at www.iipccl.org

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Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences

IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria

Articial Intelligence and Human Rights

Ermal Yzeiraj

External lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Tirana, Albania

Abstract

Technology oers powerful tools for society, but restrictions on digital freedom and

developments in the eld of articial intelligence, automation, and robotics raise serious

concerns about the impact on human rights and the future of work. The development of the

internet has expanded access to knowledge, as new media platforms have given activists quick

ways to organize communities and exchange messages on a large scale.

Emerging technologies, such as articial intelligence, can signicantly enhance the availability

and quality of data on which decisions are made in the public interest, by creating new

opportunities, increasing eciency, thereby maximizing human potential.

At the same time, rapid developments in the eld of articial intelligence, automation and

robotics raise questions about their impact on human rights and the future of work. The use of

machinery to increase productivity risks increasing social inequality through declining wage

pressure and job losses. The growth of exible work, far from the traditional one, facilitated

by new technologies, has contributed to changing the nature of work by increasing the

availability of exible positions that oer opportunities for some, while negatively aecting

the livelihoods of others.

And in the background, massive data collection can hamper free and fair societies, with

implications also for the violation of the individual’s other rights and freedoms.

Keywords: articial intelligence, information technology, freedom, rights

Introduction

The eld of articial intelligence is evolving and its proponents believe that its

continued development will create new opportunities in health, education, and

transportation, generate wealth, thus contributing to the strengthening of the

economy, and will be used to resolve pressing social issues.

On the other hand, replacing human intelligence with technological equipment can

radically change the nature of work, resulting in massive job losses and increasing

income inequality. Algorithmic decision-making by companies can also perpetuate

human prejudices and lead to discriminatory outcomes. Signicant expansion of the

data collected and analyzed could also result in increasing the power of the companies

that own this data and threaten the right to privacy. The rapid growth of the eld of

articial intelligence also raises important questions about whether current policies,

legal systems, due diligence business practices, and methods of protecting human

rights are appropriate for the purpose.

It is increasingly accepted that there is a particular risk of collective or social harm

from processes that use articial intelligence. The potential systemic damage varies

from the repetition of historical social inequality through algorithmic decision-

making, the rooting of social and economic disadvantages, to the destabilization of