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Frontier of machine learning raises questions and risks for human rights

International organizations are calling on governments and technology companies to adopt a human rights declaration for how they handle artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The advent of machine learning has human rights implications.
The advent of machine learning has human rights implications. (AN/h heyerlein/Unsplash)

International organizations are campaigning for governments and tech companies to adopt a declaration meant to protect human rights in the age of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Amnesty International and Access Now published a new draft this month of their proposed "Toronto Declaration," also endorsed by Human Rights Watch and Wikimedia Foundation. It first surfaced in May at Canada's RightsCon Toronto, an international conference on human rights in the digital age.

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