Australian Human Rights Commission
Protecting Human Rights from Military Technologies, 30 November 2023
Violent Extremism’ (A/HRC/52/39, 01 March 2023) 13 [38]; see also Report of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights, ‘The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age’ (A/HRC/48/31, 15 September 2021)
6 [22].
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United Nations, ‘Machines Capable of Taking Lives without Human Involvement Are Unacceptable, SecretaryGeneral Tells Experts on Autonomous Weapons Systems’ (Press Release, United Nations, 25 March 2019)
<https://press.un.org/en/2019/sgsm19512.doc.htm>.
20
Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Christof Heyns, ‘Report
to the Human Rights Council’ (a/hrc/23/47, 09 April 2013) 10 [55].
21
Australian Human Rights Commission, ‘Final Report’ (Report, 2021) 13.
22
Australian Human Rights Commission, ‘Final Report’ (Report, 2021) 13.
23
See e.g. Joy Buolamwini and Timinit Guru, ‘Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial
Gender Classification’ (2018) 81 Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 1; KS Krishnapriya, Kushal
Vangara, Michael C King, Vitor Albiero and Kevin Bowyer, ‘Characterizing the Variability in Face Recognition
Accuracy Relative to Race’ (Conference Paper, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition Workshops, 2019); Inioluwa Deborah Raji and Joy Buolamwini, ‘Actionable Auditing: Investigating
the Impact of Publicly Naming Biased Performance Results of Commercial AI Products’ (Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society, 2019).
24
United Nations, ‘What are Human Rights?’ (Webpage) <https://www.ohchr.org/en/what-are-human-rights>.
25
United Nations, ‘What are Human Rights?’ (Webpage) <https://www.ohchr.org/en/what-are-human-rights>.
26
See e.g. UN Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross
Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law;
Convention on the Crime of Genocide; UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and
Abuse of Power.
27
International Military Tribunal, 14 November 1945 - 1 October 1946 (Nuremberg: International Military
Tribunal, 1947) 223.
28
G. Bell et al., ‘Rapid Response Information Report: Generative AI - language models (LLMs) and multimodal
foundation models (MFMs)’ (Australian Council of Learned Academies, Report, 24 March 2023) 12.
29
Kobi Lein & Anja Kaspersen, ‘Seven Myths of Using the Term “Human on the Loop”: “Just What Do You Think
You Are Doing, Dave?”’ (Webpage) <https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/media/article/7-myths-of-using-theterm-human-on-the-loop>.
30
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental
freedoms while countering terrorism, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, ‘Human Rights Implications of the Development,
Use and Transfer of New Technologies in the Context of Counter-terrorism and Countering and Preventing
Violent Extremism’ (A/HRC/52/39, 01 March 2023) 6 [31].
31
See e.g. Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Christof Heyns,
‘Report to the Human Rights Council’ (A/HRC/23/47, 09 April 2013) 14-15.
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