Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations rights chief on Saturday issued a warning regarding advances in AI (artificial intelligence), posing a grave threat to human rights, and called for regulations to prevent violations.
In the last few days over 60 nations including China and the United States sought the regulation of AI in defense to make sure it “does not undermine global security, stability, and accountability”.
Concerns over AI use in military conflicts
There have been rising concerns over weaponry such as AI-guided drones, which are termed ‘slaughterbots’, that can kill without human intervention, and the risk that AI could heighten a military conflict.
Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said “I am deeply disturbed by the potential for harm of recent advances in artificial intelligence.”
He added, there is a serious risk to all human rights, including human agency and human dignity. This is an urgent call for both governments and businesses to develop quickly effective safeguards that are needed urgently.
AI has entered our everyday lives, revolutionizing searches on the internet, changing the way we monitor our health and bringing up new innovations such as an app capable of generating all sorts of written content in seconds on a simple request.
Critics have raised issues such as breaches of privacy and biased algorithms.
“We will follow this closely, provide our specific expertise and ensure that the human rights dimension remains central to how this goes forward,” Turk said.
