New dashboard aims to help users hold the global tech sector accountable.
Created by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Technology Company Dashboards collects and presents data about technology companies around the world. The goal is to provide workers, rights advocates, investors, and others easy-to-access information about company practices as they relate to human rights.
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A 2023 report from Internet Watch Foundation AI is increasingly being used to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
Researchers examined 20,254 AI-generated images that were posted to one dark web CSAM forum over the course of one month and a preliminary review found that 11,108 of them were likely criminal. Ultimately, 2,978 were deemed criminal per UK law. They also concluded that the AI-generated images are increasingly becoming visually indistinguishable from CSAM that involve real people, that much of it focuses on celebrity children and people who have previously been abused, and that there is potential for massive growth in this criminal area.
Community Health and Collective Security Human Rights Issue 2023AI could be used to better meet the needs of the disabled, but there are currently many instances where it actively works against the disabled community.
In 2023, researchers at Pennsylvania State University published “Automated Ableism: An Exploration of Explicit Disability Biases in Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS) Sentiment and Toxicity Analysis Models,” which explores the bias embedded in several natural language processing (NLP) algorithms and models. They found that every single public model they tested “exhibited significant bias against disability,” classifying sentences as negative and toxic simply because they contained references to disability, ignoring context and the actual lived experiences of disabled people.
Community Health and Collective Security Disability Justice Issue 2023AI models, without ecological awareness, can perpetuate and amplify environmentally damaging narratives, exacerbating ecological crises.
The integration—or lack thereof—of ecological awareness in AI systems manifests significantly in how AI influences public and private sector decisions. For instance, without ecological consideration, AI-driven recommendations in urban planning and resource management could prioritize economic gains over sustainability, leading to increased carbon footprints and depletion of natural resources. The H4rmony Project addresses this by embedding ecolinguistic principles into AI to ensure its outputs promote sustainability.
Environmental Justice Human Rights Issue 2017AI systems reflect the culture's bias against the disabled.
The Allegheny County Department of Human Services in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States uses an AI system that residents allege incorrectly flags disabled parents as being neglectful, removing their children from their homes with no actual evidence of neglect. It is currently under investigation by the United States Department of Justice.
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