Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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AI’s Potential to Advance Human Rights? Striking the Right Balance
The risks of AI are well-known, but devoting more effort to understanding its benefits towards human rights will help harness its potential.

The Just Security Podcast: An Innovative Lawsuit Links Social Media Companies to Mass Shootings
Paul Barrett discusses the novel case and its potential impact on legal efforts to hold social media companies liable for mass shootings.

AI Exploitation and Child Sexual Abuse: The Need for Safety by Design
Implementation of “safety by design” would allow the private sector to curb the spread of AI-generated child sexual abuse material.

Beyond AI Safety Narratives: How to Craft Tech-Agnostic and Neo-Luddite Futures
It is essential to take a tech-agnostic and neo-Luddite approach to challenge the power accumulated by the architects of AI.

AI at the Border: Racialized Impacts and Implications
The use of AI in immigration enforcement poses a growing risk to marginalized communities.

Children’s Personal Photos Are Powering AI Exploitation
Children deserve privacy. They deserve to safely learn, grow, and play online, without fear that their identities might be stolen and weaponized against them.

Government Use of AI is Expanding: We Should Hope for the Best but Safeguard Against the Worst
Robust governance over the use of AI in the public sector requires centralized, specialized oversight of decision-making.

The Missing AI Conversation We Need to Have: Environmental Impacts of Generative AI
AI risks compounding environmental harms to our planet long before it can live up to its much-hyped potential.

Can Families of Mass Shooting Victims Hold Social Media Companies Responsible for Violence?
Lawsuits connecting social media companies to mass shootings could hold Silicon Valley titans legally responsible for societal harms.

What Happens When We Get What We Pay for: Generative AI and the Sale of Digital Authenticity
As social media platforms become inundated with AI-generated disinformation, digital authenticity and amplification should not be for sale.

Truth, Trust, and AI: Justice and Accountability for International Crimes in the Era of Digital Deception
The emergence of deepfakes and synthetic media have called into question the authenticity of user-generated evidence in legal proceedings.

Introducing the Symposium on AI and Human Rights
Explore the intersection of AI and human rights in this new collaboration between Just Security and UCLA's Promise Institute for Human Rights.