Comment by Erika Guevara Rosas

Amnesty International’s own research has shown that the deployment of harmful technologies such as facial recognition and automation in the public sector have threatened the right to privacy and social protection in India and have led to discrimination and exclusion of marginalized communities. Systems of mass surveillance are being expanded in an already pernicious context of rights abuses. [...] States must urgently course-correct the current AI trajectory, adopt binding guardrails that draw clear prohibitions around technologies that are incompatible with human rights.