Comment by Global Partners Digital

Red lines are clear prohibitions on AI systems and uses that pose unacceptable risk to human rights. [...] There is broad agreement from a broad set of actors – governments, technologists, civil society, faith leaders – on where several of them belong, including biometric mass surveillance, social scoring, predictive policing, and systems designed to manipulate behaviour or exploit vulnerabilities. What these share is a common effect: they all harm autonomy and reduce individuals to objects of control or exploitation. [...] GPD calls for enforceable red lines to become the minimum common denominator for accountability. We urge states to treat human dignity as an immediate priority, invest in monitoring capacity, and embed limits into global coordination mechanisms and company design practices.