Artificial intelligence (AI)-supported systems have transformative applications in the humanitarian sector but they also pose unique risks for human rights, even when used with the best intentions. Drawing from research and expert consultations conducted across the globe in recent years, this paper identifies key points of consensus on how humanitarian practitioners can ensure that AI augments – rather than undermines – human interests while being rights-respecting. Specifically, these consultations emphasized the necessity of an anchoring framework based on international human rights law as an essential baseline for ensuring that human interests are embedded in AI systems. Ethics, in addition, can play a complementary role in filling gaps and elevating standards above the minimum requirements of international human rights law. This paper summarizes the advantages of this framework, while also identifying specific tools and best practices that either already exist and can be adapted to the AI context, or that need to be created, in order to operationalize this human rights framework. As the COVID crisis has laid bare, AI will increasingly shape the global response to the world's toughest problems, especially in the development and humanitarian sector. To ensure that AI tools enable human progress and contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, humanitarian actors need to be proactive and inclusive in developing tools, policies and accountability mechanisms that protect human rights.

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用于人道主义行动的人工智能：人权与道德

人工智能 (AI) 支持的系统在人道主义领域具有变革性的应用，但它们也对人权构成独特的风险，即使是出于最佳意图。根据近年来在全球范围内进行的研究和专家咨询，本文确定了关于人道主义从业者如何确保人工智能在尊重权利的同时增强而不是削弱人类利益的关键共识。具体而言，这些磋商强调了以国际人权法为基础的锚定框架的必要性，作为确保人类利益嵌入人工智能系统的基本基线。此外，道德可以在填补空白和将标准提高到高于国际人权法的最低要求方面发挥补充作用。本文总结了该框架的优势，同时还确定了已经存在并可以适应人工智能环境或需要创建的特定工具和最佳实践，以实施该人权框架。随着 COVID 危机的暴露，人工智能将越来越多地影响全球对世界上最棘手问题的反应，特别是在发展和人道主义领域。为确保人工智能工具能够促进人类进步并为实现可持续发展目标做出贡献，人道主义行动者需要积极主动地开发保护人权的工具、政策和问责机制。或者需要创建，以便使这一人权框架可操作。随着 COVID 危机的暴露，人工智能将越来越多地影响全球对世界上最棘手问题的反应，特别是在发展和人道主义领域。为确保人工智能工具能够促进人类进步并为实现可持续发展目标做出贡献，人道主义行动者需要积极主动和包容地开发保护人权的工具、政策和问责机制。或者需要创建，以便使这一人权框架可操作。随着 COVID 危机的暴露，人工智能将越来越多地影响全球对世界上最棘手问题的反应，特别是在发展和人道主义领域。为确保人工智能工具能够促进人类进步并为实现可持续发展目标做出贡献，人道主义行动者需要积极主动地开发保护人权的工具、政策和问责机制。