Legal and Ethical Dimensions in Addressing Human Rights in the Design and Implementation of Artificial Intelligence

This doctoral research will address the legal requirements in AI system development, particularly those deriving from international human rights law, together with relevant ethical and technical issues. The aim is to identify their potential cumulative effects on AI design, development, and use and suggest some ideas for further consideration. It will analyze the technical landscape and assess the capacities of systems to conform to the dictations of Human Rights and Ethics and if not, how that might be achieved. This proposal puts forth a framework for ensuring that the AI regulations are within an ethical matrix in compliance with the legal requirements while not neglecting the technical capabilities of AI systems. A large amount of the literature on the subjects are focused on specific issues revolving privacy, data ethics or provide solutions to envisioned problems usually without taking into account the technical limitations or nature of AI. A trait of some AI systems to change present the very real possibility to escape the definitions placed by the legal system that has only recently started to catch up. Some have called for a “moral panic” to ensure AI compliance at the expense of necessity or practicality. This research aspires to contribute toward achieving not only “moral certainty” but also “legal containment” and “technical rationalism.”