Why technology puts human rights at risk
Schippers, Birgit (2018) Why technology puts human rights at risk. The Conversation. (https://theconversation.com/why-technology-puts-hu...)
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Abstract
Movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner and Terminator brought rogue robots and computer systems to our cinema screens. But these days, such classic science fiction spectacles don't seem so far removed from reality. Increasingly, we live, work and play with computational technologies that are autonomous and intelligent. These systems include software and hardware with the capacity for independent reasoning and decision making. They work for us on the factory floor; they decide whether we can get a mortgage; they track and measure our activity and fitness levels; they clean our living room floors and cut our lawns. Autonomous and intelligent systems have the potential to affect almost every aspect of our social, economic, political and private lives, including mundane everyday aspects. Much of this seems innocent, but there is reason for concern. Computational technologies impact on every human right, from the right to life to the right to privacy, freedom of expression to social and economic rights. So how can we defend human rights in a technological landscape increasingly shaped by robotics and artificial intelligence (AI)?
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Schippers, Birgit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6543-0103;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 79863 Dates: DateEvent4 July 2018PublishedSubjects: Science > Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science
Science > Mathematics > Computer softwareDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Law School > Law Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 10 Mar 2022 16:22 Last modified: 05 Sep 2024 01:21 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/79863