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The Need for an International Treaty for AI from the Perspective of Human Rights
The Need for an International Treaty for AI from the Perspective of Human Rights

Author(s): Themistoklis Tzimas
Subject(s): International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Methodology and research technology
Published by: Scientia Moralitas Research Institute
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; autonomy; human rights; international law;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the role of human rights in relation to Artificial Intelligence. The main goal is to identify how human rights can contribute into a new international treaty, attempting to regulate the advances and the functions of AI, both at the present, narrow field, as well as at the level of general or super intelligence in the future. In order to do so, the article examines issues which are related to the ontology of AI, which determine the transformation of social and subsequently of legal relations too. In such a framework, the impact of human rights is presented.

  • Issue Year: 4/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 73-91
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English