This project addresses the growing recognition that AI systems disproportionately and adversely affect women and girls. Yet, insufficient attention has been paid to gender-specific, human rights-based responses to these injustices. For instance, while both scholars and legislators acknowledge the harmful impact of unregulated, AI-driven online communication on women and girls, they continue to grapple with the complex task of balancing the regulation of harmful speech with the protection of freedom of expression.
Key questions drive this study: How are states responding to the gender-based injustices arising from the development and deployment of AI systems? How are they fulfilling their obligations to respect, protect, and fulfil human rights? And how might gender-sensitive digital human rights frameworks help to address AI’s prevailing ‘white guy’ problem?
In response, the project pursues two central aims:
- to undertake a comparative analysis of legal instruments and policy initiatives concerning gender, artificial intelligence, and digital human rights; and
- to contribute to the development of emerging academic frameworks on gender-based digital human rights.
- Funder: European Cooperation in Science and Technology
- Law School Researcher: Dr Birgit Schippers