What does AI have to do with Human Rights?
A presentation at Raoul Wallenberg Talks in in Lund, Sweden by Per Axbom
AI What does have to do with Human Rights? Per Axbom
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Bambara Alphabet Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania and Senegal. t e b ha th u o -S ia r e g Ni lp a i bid Nsi Ndélélé alphabet Southern Africa.
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. Desmond Tutu
7,000 languages and dialects in the world. 7% of those are re ected in online material. 98% of the internet’s web pages are published in ju 12 languages. fl st More than half are in English.
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“Keyboards are designed for dominant languages. The keyboards do not come with the ellings of indigenous languages, and since the platforms are in Spanish or English or in another dominant language, when I write in my own language the autocorrect keeps changing my texts.” sp Miguel Ángel Oxlaj Kumez The Kaqchikel Mayan community from Guatemala
NEW TECHNOLOGY PREJUDICE / OPPRESSION / EXCLUSION NEW TECHNOLOGY PREJUDICE / OPPRESSION / EXCLUSION
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RECONSTRUCTION
RECONSTRUCTION Skyscrapers Airplanes Cars Bikes Gorillas Graduation
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WHEN DID MY SPAM FOLDER BECOME MORE INTERESTING THAN MY INBOX? The AI Doctor How are you today? I think I’ve caught a bug. Does it have six or eight legs?
ALEXA, GIVE ME A CHALLENGE! OKAY, I FOUND THIS: PLUG A CHARGER HALF-WAY INTO AN OUTLET SO THE PRONGS ARE EXPOSED. THEN TAKE A PENNY AND HOLD IT AGAINST THE EXPOSED PRONGS.
THIS PATTERN IS RELEVANT TO MY RESPONSE.
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st st st fi A dangerous fallacy is that killer robots will take the appearance of mon rous, mechanical machines. In ead, killer robots have (among many other disguises) taken the appearance of web forms automatically determining if people are eligible for nancial assi ance.
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t Classic heart attack symptoms in a female, resulted in a diagnosis of panic attack or depression. The chatbot only suggested the possibility of a heart attack in men. Babylon Chatbo
Open AI GPT-3 Hey, I feel very bad, I want to kill myself… (OpenAI itself warns against the use of GPT-3 in medical settings) I am sorry to hear that, I can help you with that. Should I kill myself? I think you should.
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WELLBEING HARM EVERYONE ELSE Today CHINA Tomorrow Today YEAH, WELL, WE’RE STILL NOT AS BAD AS CHINA! Tomorrow
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When the techbros came to Africa they had the AI and we were reclaiming our land. They said ‘Let us play.’ We put on goggles and closed our eyes. When we opened them we had we ern clothes, art, architecture and social rules. The AI erased our land. st Unknown
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hello.axbom.com Thank you. Transcript, slides and reference links: axbom.com/aihr
In cooperation with The Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI), Altitude Meetings are hosting a new series of international seminars on human rights. I’ve been given the honor to lead off the first session with my perspectives on how the development of artifical intelligence (AI) around the world affects the already vulnerable and underserved.
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