Artificial Intelligence

How freedom of expression and information is impacted by Artificial Intelligence

98 articles
Ethnic Uighurs take part in a protest urging the European Union to call upon China to respect human rights in the Chinese Xinjiang region, in Brussels, Belgium, 27 April 2018, EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images

Massive crackdown on Turkic Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region

This statement was originally published on hrw.org on 9 September 2018. The Chinese government is conducting a mass, systematic campaign of human rights violations against Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang in northwestern China. The 117-page report, “‘Eradicating Ideological Viruses’: China’s Campaign of Repression Against Xinjiang’s Muslims,” presents new evidence of the Chinese government’s mass arbitrary detention, […]

Police officers patrol the area as Muslims leave the Id Kah Mosque after the morning prayer in the town of Kashgar, in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, 26 June 2017, JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images

China’s ever-expanding surveillance state

China is taking systematic steps to expand its surveillance of people and communication channels within and outside the country.

A manager tries the facial recognition technology for starting a 'Yungui' train, a driverless monorail transit system, in Yinchuan, China, 10 January 2018, Xinhua/Wang Peng via Getty Images

New report shows how AI tools threaten right to privacy and freedom of expression

ARTICLE 19 and Privacy International’s new report examines how one particular AI technique, machine learning, impacts these rights, the implications we can expect, and how these must be addressed.

Gamers play video games during the opening of the world's largest computer games fair Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, 22 August 2017, REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

Key points for the democratic regulation of “Over-the-Top” services so as to ensure a free and open Internet

The growing importance of “Over-the-Top” (OTT) services in the global economy and the fundamental role they play in the exercise of human rights such as freedom of expression and the right to information is undeniable.