Safeguarding Cultural Rights and the Right to Development in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

<p dir="ltr">Report on Safeguarding Cultural Rights and the Right to Development in the Age of Artificial Intelligence submitted to the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Pursuant to Human Rights Council Resolution 45/6.</p><p dir="ltr"><b><u>CONTENTS</u></b></p><p dir="ltr"><b>1.</b><b> </b><b>EXECUTIVE SUMMARY</b></p><p dir="ltr"><b>2.</b><b> </b><b>RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS IN CALL FOR INPUT</b></p><p dir="ltr">2.1 Question 1: Potential Benefits of AI</p><p dir="ltr">2.2 Question 2: AI Enhancement of Cultural Rights</p><p dir="ltr">2.3 Question 3: Effects of the Digital Divide</p><p dir="ltr">2.4 Question 4: Present Digital Divides</p><p dir="ltr">2.5 Question 5: Potential Drawbacks to AI</p><p dir="ltr">2.6 Question 6: Risks of AI</p><p dir="ltr">2.7 Question 7: Disproportionate Harms of AI</p><p dir="ltr">2.8 Question 8: Long-term Effects of AI</p><p dir="ltr">2.9 Question 9: Protection of Cultural Rights</p><p dir="ltr">2.10 Question 10: Can AI Regulation Protect Cultural Rights?</p><p dir="ltr">2.11 Question 11: Regulation by Whom and to What End</p><p dir="ltr">2.12 Question 12: Self-regulation of AI</p><p dir="ltr">2.13 Question 13: Disadvantages of AI Regulation</p><p dir="ltr">2.14 Question 14: Institutional Regulation of AI in the United States</p><p dir="ltr">2.15 Question 15: Regional AI Agreements</p><p dir="ltr">2.16 Question 16: Global Treaty Versus Domestic Regulation</p><p dir="ltr"><b>CONCLUSION</b></p>