Artificial intelligence and human rights: a business ethical assessment
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Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved as a disruptive technology, impacting a wide range of human rights-related issues ranging from discrimination to supply chain due diligence. Given the increasing human rights obligations of companies and the intensifying discourse on AI and human rights, we shed light on the responsibilities of corporate actors in terms of human rights standards in the context of developing and using AI. What implications do human rights obligations have for companies developing and using AI? In our article, we discuss firstly whether AI inherently conflicts with human rights and human autonomy. Next, we discuss how AI might be linked to the beneficence criterion of AI ethics and how AI might be applied in human rights-related areas. Finally, we elaborate on individual aspects of what it means to conform to human rights, addressing AI-specific problem areas.
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Ethical consciousness can be read as coming out of business ethics, which is an applied ethics within the commercial environment.
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AI ethics is highly interdisciplinary and is rapidly evolving.
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- Authors
- KRIEBITZ, A., & LÜTGE, C.
- Venue
- Business and Human Rights Journal
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2020-01
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 84-104
- ISSN
- 2057-0198 (ISSN-L)
- 2057-0201
- OpenAlex
- W3008683619
- Cited by
- 76
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 4
- FWCI
- 12.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Business and Human Rights Journal (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- mediaTUM (Technical University of Munich) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Social Sciences › Law › Digitalization, Law, and Regulation
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Corporate Law and Human Rights
- Keywords
- artificial intelligence, human rights, corporate human rights obligations, business ethics, AI ethics, human autonomy, beneficence, discrimination, supply chain due diligence, corporate social responsibility
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