CALL FOR PAPERS – 5th Issue of the Journal of Human Rights and Social Development

Theme: Artificial intelligence, data protection and human rights

“Artificial intelligence (AI) holds an extraordinary potential for both promises and perils. Responsible use of AI has the potential to help solve urgent challenges and make our world more prosperous, productive, innovative and safe. At the same time, irresponsible use can exacerbate social harms such as fraud, discrimination, prejudice and misinformation; displace and weaken workers”. (EUA, 2023). 

November, 2023. With this statement, the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, set the tone for the radical transformation the world is going through, as well as indicating that the race to generate, create and apply artificial intelligence instruments has given way to the search, on a global scale, for the regulation of intelligent data processing and generation systems. The context is one of frantic search for the best regulatory model. In the same week as the creation of the North American executive order, the United Nations expressed its concern about the proliferation of the use of automated weapons, presenting, at the same time, an incisive question: “Even if an algorithm can determine what is legal under International Humanitarian Law, it can never determine what is ethical” (UN, 2023). A few weeks later, the Parliament and the Council of Europe presented the initial version of the first normative instrument to broadly address the regulation of artificial intelligence systems (AI Act).

Within this issue of the Journal of Human Rights and Social Development we propose a debate regarding the impacts of Artificial Intelligence and its regulation not only on society, but also, specifically, on the exercise of human and fundamental rights. We are looking for unpublished articles with critical and in-depth discussions on the aforementioned subjects along with others topics such as: a) regulatory models for artificial intelligence systems around the world; b) national and international legislative proposals on the topic; c) Information disclosure, fairness and transparency of artificial intelligence models; d) the discriminatory impacts of artificial intelligence models and proposals to overcome these effects; e) impact of artificial intelligence models in specific private and public segments, including credit granting and creditor risk assessment, public safety, education, automated work, health and sustainability.

The Dossier will have the participation, as guest editors, professors Caroline Janssen (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany), Chistina Koumpli (Avignon Université, France) and Juliano Maranhão (University of São Paulo). Works must follow the Journal's editorial guidelines and be submitted by September 31, 2024.