New human rights principles on artificial intelligence

In May 2018, Amnesty International, Access Now, and a handful of partner organizations launched the Toronto Declaration on protecting the right to equality and non-discrimination in machine learning systems. The Declaration is a landmark document that seeks to apply existing international human rights standards to the development and use of machine learning systems (or "artificial intelligence"). Machine learning (ML) is a subset of artificial intelligence. It can be defined as " provid[ing] systems the ability to automatically learn and improve from experience without being explicitly programmed." How is this technology relevant to human rights?