Artificial intelligence and human rights student symposium

AI is becoming integrated in the digital systems that are part and parcel of our everyday lives. While the technology brings unprecedented opportunities, it is set to reconfigure power relationships within societies and among states; challenging human rights, deepening inequalities, and undermining international governance regimes. These disruptions are important for Global Affairs Canada as they affect Canada's ability to meet its international commitments and obligations related to human rights, inclusion, and democracy. Indeed, reports about biased AI systems fuelling discrimination and facilitating unequal access to services and information are ubiquitous. The role of AI technologies in undermining liberal democracy; eroding privacy; and interfering with human rights and freedoms, such as gender equality, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, is also becoming troublingly apparent.