{"id":127825,"date":"2021-09-18T17:23:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T00:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/un-urges-moratorium-on-use-of-ai-that-imperils-human-rights"},"modified":"2021-09-18T17:23:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T00:23:34","slug":"un-urges-moratorium-on-use-of-ai-that-imperils-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/un-urges-moratorium-on-use-of-ai-that-imperils-human-rights","title":{"rendered":"UN urges moratorium on use of AI that imperils human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/un-urges-moratorium-on-use-of-ai-that-imperils-human-rights2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.N. human rights chief is calling for a moratorium on the use of artificial intelligence technology that poses a serious risk to human rights, including face-scanning systems that track people in public spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, also said Wednesday that countries should expressly ban AI applications which don\u2019t comply with international human rights law.<\/p>\n<p>Applications that should be prohibited include government \u201csocial scoring\u201d systems that judge people based on their behavior and certain AI-based tools that categorize people into clusters such as by ethnicity or gender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.N. human rights chief is calling for a moratorium on the use of artificial intelligence technology that poses a serious risk to human rights, including face-scanning systems that track people in public spaces. Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, also said Wednesday that countries should expressly ban AI applications which don\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}