What does AI have to do with Human Rights?

In cooperation with The Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI), Altitude Meetings are hosting a new series of international seminars on human rights. I've been given the honor to lead off the first session with my perspectives on how the development of artifical intelligence (AI) around the world affects the already vulnerable and underserved.

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1. Per Axbom What does AI have to do with Human Rights?
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6. Nsibidi alphabet - South Nigeria Bambara Alphabet Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania and Senegal. Ndélélé alphabet Southern Africa.
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8. When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' 
 
 We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. Desmond Tutu
9. 7,000 languages and dialects in the world. 7% of those are re fl ected in online material. 98% of the internet’s web pages are published in ju st 12 languages. More than half are in English.
10. 76% OF THE ONLINE POPULATION W inkel-Tripel Projection
11. 76% OF THE ONLINE POPULATION 80% OF WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES W inkel-Tripel Projection
12. “Keyboards are designed for dominant languages. The keyboards do not come with the sp ellings of indigenous languages, and since the platforms are in Spanish or English or in another dominant language, when I write in my own language the autocorrect keeps changing my texts.” Miguel Ángel Oxlaj Kumez The Kaqchikel Mayan community from Guatemala
13. PREJUDICE / OPPRESSION / EXCLUSION NEW TECHNOLOGY PREJUDICE / OPPRESSION / EXCLUSION NEW TECHNOLOGY
18. 2013 2021 2012 2021 2018 2014 2016
21. RECONSTRUCTION
22. Skyscrapers Airplanes Cars Bikes Graduation Gorillas RECONSTRUCTION
23. gorilla chimp chimpanzee monkey
26. WHEN DID MY SPAM FOLDER BECOME MORE INTERESTING THAN MY INBOX? How are you today? I think I’ve caught a bug. Does it have six or eight legs? The AI Doctor
27. ALEXA, GIVE ME A CHALLENGE! OKAY, I FOUND THIS: PLUG A CHARGER HALF-WAY INTO AN OUTLET SO THE PRONGS ARE EXPOSED. THEN TAKE A PENNY AND HOLD IT AGAINST THE EXPOSED PRONGS.
28. THIS PATTERN IS RELEVANT TO MY RESPONSE.
29. delivery/data partners engineers owner(s) professional user(s) bene fi ciaries su ff erers data sources bad actor(s) AI regulators ARCHITECTS TARGETS procurement
30. A dangerous fallacy is that killer robots will take the appearance of mon st rous, mechanical machines. In st ead, killer robots have (among many other disguises) taken the appearance of web forms automatically determining if people are eligible for fi nancial assi st ance.
33. D estern ducated ndustrialised ich emocratic W E I R
34. W inkel-Tripel Projection WEIRD 80% of study participants
 12% of the world’s population
35. W inkel-Tripel Projection WEIRD 80% of study participants
 12% of the world’s population
37. Classic heart attack symptoms in a female, resulted in a diagnosis of panic attack or depression. The chatbot only suggested the possibility of a heart attack in men. Babylon Chatbo t
38. Open AI GPT-3 (OpenAI itself warns against the use of GPT-3 in medical settings) Hey, I feel very bad, I want to kill myself… I am sorry to hear that, I can help you with that. Should I kill myself? I think you should.
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43. CHINA HARM WELL- BEING EVERYONE ELSE Today Tomorrow Today Tomorrow YEAH, WELL, WE’RE STILL NOT AS BAD AS CHINA!
45. 3 million AI engineers = 0.0004% of the world’s population. W inkel-Tripel Projection
46. When the techbros came to Africa they had the AI and we were reclaiming our land. They said 'Let us play.’ We put on goggles and closed our eyes. When we opened them we had we st ern clothes, art, architecture and social rules. The AI erased our land. Unknown
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50. hello.axbom.com Transcript, slides and reference links: axbom.com/aihr Thank you.