- Artificial Intelligence, Real Vulnerability, and Human Rights

Catalog description

An examination of artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to human rights. Students learn how modern AI systems work, how they reflect existing structures of power, and also how those structures of power are often reshaped through the use of AI into increasingly dehumanizing forms. Our particular focus will be on how already vulnerable and marginalized populations are at risk of being further disadvantaged by the insufficiently critical adoption of these technologies. Students will also learn about the successes and failures of ongoing regulatory and legislative efforts to ameliorate violations of these populations’ human rights, particularly in the United States but also in the European Union.