In today’s world, research in fields ranging from health, education and agriculture to economics, social sciences and humanities relies on computational methods, and in particular artificial intelligence tools.
Policy makers and public interest advocates around the world are beginning to formulate a policy agenda for the promotion of Just AI. The concept of Just AI combines the desires for promoting public accountability and accessibility in AI infrastructure advocated by “Public AI” advocates with additional human rights concerns, including the moral and material interests of creators, the stewardship of traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, and genetic resources by communities, and the developmental priorities of the Global South.
Many of the core elements of a Just AI vision require the implementation or alteration of copyright and related knowledge governance policies (including, e.g., privacy law, data governance, competition law, etc.). These areas of law are often shaped and informed by international treaties and policies being implemented and reformed in International Geneva.
At the Centre on Knowledge Governance we are working with a network of 100 scholars in 30 countries (through the User Rights Network) and with representatives of governments in multilateral organisations in Geneva to help define a policy agenda on Copyright, the Right to Research and Just AI.
To read more about our vision for just AI, see our full concept note below. For case studies on Just AI, visit our focus area page on Just AI
