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GENEVA, Sep 15 (AP) \u2014 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
Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, also said Wednesday that countries should expressly ban AI applications that don\u2019t comply with international human rights law.<\/p>\n
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
AI-based technologies can be a force for good but they can also \u201chave negative, even catastrophic, effects if they are used without sufficient regard to how they affect people\u2019s human rights,\u201d Bachelet said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Her comments came with a new U.N. report that examines how countries and businesses have rushed into applying AI systems that affect people\u2019s lives and livelihoods without setting up proper safeguards to prevent discrimination and other harms.<\/p>\n
She didn\u2019t call for an outright ban of facial recognition technology, but said governments should halt the scanning of people\u2019s features in real time until they can show the technology is accurate, won\u2019t discriminate and meets certain privacy and data protection standards.<\/p>\n
While countries weren\u2019t mentioned by name in the report, China in particular has been among the countries that have rolled out facial recognition technology \u2014 particularly as part of surveillance in the western region of Xinjiang, where many of its minority Uyghers live.<\/p>\n
The report also voices wariness about tools that try to deduce people\u2019s emotional and mental states by analyzing their facial expressions or body movements, saying such technology is susceptible to bias, misinterpretations and lacks scientific basis.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe use of emotion recognition systems by public authorities, for instance for singling out individuals for police stops or arrests or to assess the veracity of statements during interrogations, risks undermining human rights, such as the rights to privacy, to liberty and to a fair trial,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n
The report\u2019s recommendations echo the thinking of many political leaders in Western democracies, who hope to tap into AI\u2019s economic and societal potential while addressing growing concerns about the reliability of tools that can track and profile individuals and make recommendations about who gets access to jobs, loans and educational opportunities.<\/p>\n
European regulators have already taken steps to rein in the riskiest AI applications. Proposed regulations outlined by European Union officials this year would ban some uses of AI, such as real-time scanning of facial features, and tightly control others that could threaten people\u2019s safety or rights.<\/p>\n
U.S. President Joe Biden\u2019s administration has voiced similar concerns about such applications, though it hasn\u2019t yet outlined a detailed approach to curtailing them. A newly formed group called the Trade and Technology Council, jointly led by American and European officials, has sought to collaborate on developing shared rules for AI and other tech policy.<\/p>\n
Efforts to set limits on the riskiest uses have been backed by Microsoft and other U.S. tech giants that hope to guide the rules affecting the technology they\u2019ve helped to build.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you think about the ways that AI could be used in a discriminatory fashion, or to further strengthen discriminatory tendencies, it is pretty scary,\u201d said U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo during a virtual conference in June. \u201cWe have to make sure we don\u2019t let that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
She was speaking with Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission\u2019s executive vice president for the digital age, who suggested some AI uses should be off-limits completely in \u201cdemocracies like ours,\u201d such as social scoring that can close off someone\u2019s privileges in society, and \u201cbroad, blanket use of remote biometric identification in public space.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said there\u2019s something fundamental about being able to say, \u201cI live in a real society. I\u2019m not living in the trailer of a horror movie that I don\u2019t want to see the end of.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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