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Three questions about the multi-billion dollar biometric digital-ID industry:

Three questions about the multi-billion dollar biometric digital-ID industry:

1. There is no country where citizens called for biometric digital-ID – so in whose interests is it being imposed? 2. If human rights are entitlements due to all human beings unconditionally, why are govts making them conditional on biometric ID? 3. What is the logical end point if we allow states and corporations to conduct ever-more intrusive mass surveillance of our daily lives? I am constantly shocked to see the billions of dollars endlessly poured into biometric digital-ID systems…

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Ten reasons not to use AI for development and ten routes to more responsible use

Ten reasons not to use AI for development and ten routes to more responsible use

The UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer says we should be mainlining AI directly into every part of government and the economy. The Foreign Secretary says he is planning to bring ‘AI into the heart of our work’.  However, there is a great deal of evidence about the harms that AI can cause. Here I outline ten reasons not to use generative AI, like ChatGPT, in international development or humanitarian work, while outlining how work on Responsible AI can address these…

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