Can AI improve safety and protect rights?

THE SHORT VERSION

Public safety and people’s rights must be considered together.

This policy brief draws on interviews with Kenyan stakeholders in 2023. It recommends putting human rights, local context and continuing oversight at the centre of AI use in public-order management.

The diagram presents recommendations, rather than a description of safeguards already in place.

A text version of the poster

1. Listen locally. Include community voices and understand local contexts.
2. Protect people. Safeguard privacy, expression and equal treatment.
3. Build accountability. Train users and introduce independent oversight.
4. Keep reviewing. Update guidelines as technology and society change.

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