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AI-Enabled Tools Amplify Atrocity Risks, Warns Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
WHY IT MATTERS
The use of AI-enabled tools in atrocity situations can magnify the speed, scale, and destructive capacity with which perpetrators can surveil, identify, and target populations, highlighting the need for improved governance and regulation of AI to prevent human rights violations and atrocity crimes.
What happened
The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect has emphasized that AI-enabled tools are being used in conflicts worldwide, including in Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, and China, to discriminate against and repress certain communities.
These tools can enhance existing patterns of discrimination and make it easier to identify, monitor, and target populations already at heightened risk.
The centre has called for greater human oversight in decision-making and for AI developers to embed human rights protections and measures to avoid reinforcing bias into their systems.
PRIMARY SOURCES
World: Remarks Delivered at the UN General Assembly High-Level Week Side Event, Enhancing the Capacity to Prevent Atrocities: Human Rights-Based Approaches to Artificial Intelligence - Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
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