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Human Right to Work and Humanlike AI at Work: Technological Unemployment as a Legal and Ethical Issue
Human Right to Work and Humanlike AI at Work: Technological Unemployment as a Legal and Ethical Issue

Author(s): Riccardo Campa
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Economic policy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: artificial intelligence; unemployment; economic theories; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; inequalities;

Summary/Abstract: The article considers various scenarios that are materializing following the emergence of a humanlike AI. In particular, the author argues that technological unemployment (and involuntary unemployment in general) should not be seen only as a technical issue belonging to economic discourse. Technological unemployment should also be seen as an ethical and legal issue, as a theory that entrusts the allocation of resources and jobs to the law of supply and demand alone is clearly in contrast with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and various constitutional charts and ordinary laws. These pieces of legislation establish that work is not just an opportunity to be seized by competent people, but a fundamental human right.

  • Issue Year: 34/2025
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 375-394
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: English
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