Participants at the workshop themed ‘Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights’ in Morang today underscored devising a monitoring mechanism to mitigate damages from misuse of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
They pressed for monitoring mechanism to employ AI for good-governance in the provincial level workshop jointly organised by the INSEC, ICNC and Soch Nepal.
Pressing for the need to use AI in education, urban development, immigration security, ensuring transparency, energy sector, nutrition, environment conservation, they viewed that the concerned authorities should be aware that the AI does not violate the human rights.
Province 1 Planning Commission Vice-Chair Subodhraj Pyakurel expressed his confidence that many wrongdoings could be curbed if the State could ensure access to authentic information to the public.
He argued that since the AI could not measure morality, it would violate human rights.
Similarly, Province 1 Communications Academy’s executive director Yagya Sharma said that AI should be optimised for development of human and human society for which he stressed on effective monitoring on the part of the State.
INSEC Province 1 Chief Somraj Thapa, human rights activist Ishwor Joshi and Soch Nepal’s director Uttam Niraula among others univocally pointed out the need to control the social media-triggered cases of suicide which are increasing lately.
On the occasion, ICNC’s Uttam Uprety presented a paper on the role of AI in ensuring good-governance. The recommendations collected from the workshop will be furnished to the government to protect human rights arising from the AI and to combat the destructions and damages from the misuse of the AI.
