AI ethics & human rights
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In plain language
Work on how AI affects people's rights, fairness, privacy and dignity, and who stays accountable for its use. [1]
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Limits & distinctions
Concern about present harms is not automatically low concern about future catastrophe, and neither requires the same policy response. [1] [2]
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A fuller explanation
Work on how AI affects dignity, fairness, rights, privacy, accountability and human oversight. UNESCO's recommendation treats these as central concerns. [1]
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How it relates to the map
These concerns add dimensions absent from a chart of frontier pace and catastrophic risk. [1]
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1. Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
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Read overview of rights, dignity, fairness and oversight. Recommendation adoption date is not assigned to the live page.
2. Statement on AI Extinction Risk
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Publication age does not tell us whether a claim is still valid. Reading an old source again does not make its publication date newer. An update date does not establish that the passage we used was updated.
Read the statement after following the safe.ai redirect. Establishes advocacy for treating extinction risk as a priority, not certainty of catastrophe or a common numerical probability. No new signatory claims are inferred.
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Content version 0.20.0. Evidence cutoff 2026-09-15; this does not mean every source was read on that day.
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