Global/UK: Artificial Intelligence Summit must not ignore severe rights harms of fraud-detection tech

By Amnesty International

Ahead of the UK’s AI Safety Summit that begins on Wednesday November 1, Damini Satija, Head of the Algorithmic Accountability Lab at Amnesty International said: “The UK’s Global Summit on AI safety must set the right example in the global race to regulate AI, and not be led by speculative discourses on ‘existential threats’ of these technologies, at the expense of those experiencing the sharpest human […] The post Global/UK: Artificial Intelligence Summit must not ignore severe rights harms of fraud-detection tech appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>

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