The future impact of artificial intelligence on humans and human rights
Abstract
What are the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on human rights in the next three decades? Precise answers to this question are made difficult by the rapid rate of innovation in AI research and by the effects of human practices on the adaption of new technologies. Precise answers are also challenged by imprecise usages of the term “AI.” There are several types of research that all fall under this general term. We begin by clarifying what we mean by AI. Most of our attention is then focused on the implications of artificial general intelligence (AGI), which entail that an algorithm or group of algorithms will achieve something like superintelligence. While acknowledging that the feasibility of superintelligence is contested, we consider the moral and ethical implications of such a potential development. What do machines owe humans and what do humans owe superintelligent machines?
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Algorithms are designed by technical experts who often have limited knowledge of legal requirements, posing the risk of a technically accurate algorithm that fails to comply with basic human rights.
“Algorithms are designed by technical experts who often have limited knowledge of legal requirements, which poses the risk of developing a technically accurate algorithm that nonetheless fails to comply with basic human rights (Livingston and Risse 2019).”
From Legitimacy of Algorithmic Decision-Making: Six Threats and the Need for a Calibrated Institutional Response (2022) · cites this paper as Livingston and Risse 2019
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Barocas, S., & Selbst, A. D. (2014) · doi:10.2139/ssrn.2477899 · Cited by 3,048 · see citing works
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Grimmelikhuijsen, S., & Meijer, A. (2022) · Perspectives on Public Management and Governance · doi:10.1093/ppmgov/gvac008 · Cited by 189 · see citing works
- Authors
- Livingston, S., & Risse, M.
- Venue
- Ethics & International Affairs
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2019
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 02
- Pages
- 141-158
- ISSN
- 0892-6794 (ISSN-L)
- 1747-7093
- OpenAlex
- W2974209074
- Cited by
- 140
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 63 · 2022: 24 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 20.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Ethics & International Affairs (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Literary and Philosophical Studies
- Social Sciences › Law › Digitalization, Law, and Regulation
- Keywords
- artificial intelligence, human rights, artificial general intelligence, superintelligence, AI ethics, moral status of machines, future of technology, human-machine relations
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