🇺🇳 First #UN GA resolution on #AI : a positive step reinforcing #HumanRights approach, but more is needed.

The #UN has to set higher standards, including for #participation in AI governance & systems used for #NationalSecurity .

Read our joint statement ⤵️ accessnow.org/press-release/…

🧵”Insufficient evidence”. After 13 years under criminal investigation for my human rights work as head of @eipr, 8 years under a travel ban and a freeze on my assets and only bank account without trial, facing up to 25 years in prison, l and other colleagues are exonerated /1

The enduring costs of communication blackouts and lack of connectivity in Gaza: 'We can't even call an ambulance. We use a horse cart to get the dead or injured into the hospital”

Radio has become the easiest, most reliable way to get the news in Gaza.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/palestini…

A young man did not set himself on fire in protest against genocide so that liberals come out of the woodwork to lecture us about acceptable forms of political protest. When do privileged white people finally understand that their opinions simply don’t matter?

Everyone must read the letter from UNRWA’s chief. You can say all you want about UN bodies but it’s very dark times when a rogue state like Israel —and its accomplices— are engineering the downfall of a critical UN agency responsible for millions of Palestinian refugees.

Heading to LA later this week to join in conversation with some fabulous people about the role of human rights in AI: promiseinstitute.law.ucla.edu/symposium/huma… UCLA School of Law Promise Institute for Human Rights Raquel Vazquez Llorente Shannon Raj Singh Alexa Koenig Marlena Michael Karanicolas

At the symposium on #AI & #HumanRights hosted by Promise Institute for Human Rights, ECNL's Marlena w/ bechamilton, Marietje Schaake, Michael Karanicolas & Randi Michel will center human rights in AI dev't to ensure that #GlobalSouthVoices are involved in decision making.

promiseinstitute.law.ucla.edu/symposium/huma…

Happy to see this work on arxiv!

In it, we survey 300+ AI audit papers & dozens of audit reports from various domains (academia, civil society, govt, etc) to taxonomize what exactly is going on in the AI audit space & how their methods relate to impact on actual accountability.

The Council is going to vote on the EU #AIAct tomorrow and until the last moments 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 have been voicing their opposition to the law. The AI Act is NOT going to effectively protect human rights but is this what is motivating them?

Our take:
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#AIAct

With all the leaks, rumours & plotting happening around the EU AI Act, you may be confused about what's happening

Here's me, sarah chander 🇵🇸, Caterina Rodelli & Ella Jakubowska explaining what's going on & what's at stake

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We're hosting an online launch with our incredible contributors, Ruha Benjamin, Marwa Fatafta مروة فطافطة, JCarlos, J. Carlos Lara Gálvez, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Feb 15th, 7 PM GMT/2 PM ET, and you don't want to miss out on this one! 🔥 Indebted to these phenomenal thinkers
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🚨 No carve-outs for private sector, national defence or national security in #AI global treaty!🚨

W/ CoE_NGO, AlgorithmWatch, Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP) & 30+ orgs, we call on #COE negotiators to ensure COE Convention on AI is not an empty shell!

Read more & sign on: ecnl.org/news/open-lett…

A global convention on #AI not applicable to the private sector and will likely include blanket exemptions on #ArtificialIntelligence systems for #nationaldefence & #nationalsecurity is an insult to HUMAN intelligence. The gloves are off: this is totally unacceptable.

We are looking for a Policy Director at Access Now!

Please share, and do please apply for this position!

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1/ Just published an essay in @Lawfare about how ChatGPT hype obscures the harms AI is already causing, and the need for sensible regulation.

AI systems embedded in public services offer lessons on how to regulate AI, but are frequently overlooked.

Human Rights Watch

lawfaremedia.org/article/the-al…

Israel killed 147 children in Gaza on Christmas Eve.

Witnesses say Israeli soldiers separated a group of Palestinian men from women and children and then killed at least 11 of the men in front of their family.

The remaining family were either shot at or hit with a grenade, seriously injuring some, including an infant and a child.

Watch the full press conference, featuring Deborah Brown and myself from Human Rights Watch, Marwa Fatafta مروة فطافطة from Access Now, and Jalal #CeasefireNow from 7amleh حملة:

youtube.com/live/pW7bma3f_…

fucking infuriating. denying future researchers the knowledge of extant work is like an ongoing harm that sets everyone back forever. now we have to to do extra work to mitigate the internet observatory's erasure by creating & citing brand new work that properly acknowledges this