DigiJustice: Rethinking Digital Inequalities and Human Rights in the Age of AI

The past century has witnessed technological advancements ranging from heavy machinery to computers to AI and Internet of Things. These developments have brought innovation to humanity, but also created new threats to human rights, like biases in automated decision making and digital exclusion of the poor. Responses to these challenges tend to take technological progress as given and focus on solutions through smarter digital technology. This proposed Theme will challenge technological determinism and the digital imperative and explore how human rights and social justice need to be rethought to adequately address new vulnerabilities in the digital age.