Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights Law in Africa

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-83004-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies on Law in Africa

This book examines artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa from a rights-based perspective. In recent years, technology has emerged as a significant disruptor, with AI, robotics and computer advancement in particular driving changes in societies around the world. There are evident and daunting implications across contexts and continents, and many countries are rapidly seeking to define patterns of solutions that can foster effective protection against the more challenging impacts of AI.

This book considers the consequences of AI for civil and political rights, social, economic, and cultural rights, and collective rights in Africa, with particular reference to the African Charter. It considers how AI risks violating the rights enshrined in the Charter and considers how the norms outlined in the African Charter can provide the basis for a response. Overall, this book examines how a rights-based approach to AI can be realized, emphasising the imperatives for steering implementation.

Providing an important guide for strategic action for the protection of human rights in the context of AI, this book will be an important read for researchers, policymakers and students in the fields of human rights and technology in Africa.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adeola, Aderomola

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Medienrecht Telekommunikationsrecht, IT-Recht, Internetrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acronyms

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: The Industrial Revolutions and Emergence of Artificial Intelligence

Chapter Three: Artificial Intelligence and the Discipline of International Law

Chapter Four: Civil And Political Rights

Chapter Five: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Chapter Six: Collective Rights

Chapter Seven: Specific Groups

Chapter Eight: Way Forward: Regionalizing Implementation of a Rights-Centered AI

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Aderomola Adeola is an international legal scholar with expertise in human rights, artificial intelligence and migration law and policy. She holds a doctorate in law from the University of Pretoria and also has a Masters in law from the Harvard Law School. She has taught extensively on AI governance to policymakers in Africa and currently leads a chapter of the International Law Association on Artificial Intelligence, New Technologies and International Law.