News Mania Desk/Piyal Chatterjee/6th September 2024
To stop technology abuses including disseminating false information or exploiting skewed data to inform choices, the UK government has ratified the first international pact on artificial intelligence.
States are required by the legally binding pact to put in place protections against any risks AI may pose to democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. The EU, UK, US, and Israel signed the framework agreement on artificial intelligence on Thursday. The deal was drafted by the Council of Europe, an international human rights organization.
According to the convention, AI systems have to abide by a number of criteria, such as respecting human dignity, nondiscrimination, safe development, and the protection of personal data. Because of this, governments are expected to implement protections like stopping AI-generated disinformation and stopping systems from being trained on biased data, which could lead to incorrect conclusions in a variety of contexts, like applications for jobs or benefits.
It discusses how the public and business sectors employ artificial intelligence. Any organization or business utilizing pertinent AI systems has to evaluate how those systems might affect democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, and they have to disclose that information to the public. People need to be allowed to file grievances with authorities and contest choices made by AI systems.
The United Kingdom must now determine if its different provisions are covered by current laws, including those of the European Court of Human Rights and other human rights legislation. A new AI bill is now being consulted on by the government.
According to the treaty, authorities have the authority to forbid specific applications of artificial intelligence. The EU AI Act, for example, prohibits the use of face recognition databases that are taken from CCTV or the internet. It forbids systems that classify people according to their social behaviors.
“Once the treaty is ratified and brought into effect in the UK, existing laws and measures will be enhanced,” said the government.
