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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights in Africa

By: Jake Effoduh The many foundational ways of understanding the concept of artificial intelligence (AI) encompass logic, probability, continuous mathematics, reasoning, perception, and law (among other subjects). Broadly speaking, AI refers to any machine or program capable of recreating one or more elements of human intelligence. It is where machines, artificial agents, and further complex systems mimic cognitive functions, such as reasoning, problem-solving, and learning, that humans would associate with their own. It is seen […]

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Climate Change Presents an Unprecedented Threat to Human Rights

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Earlier this month, Professors Campbell-Durufle and Bernard Duhaime presented an amicus brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

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Should the Use of Lethal Autonomous Robots be Permitted in Warfare?

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By: Jake Effoduh This article explores how lethal autonomous robots may advance or undermine the rules of international humanitarian law (laws that regulate the conduct of war and armed conflict). It also attempts to provide insight on the value (or otherwise) of the current proposal before the United Nations to ban autonomous weapons systems. Click here to read

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