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Podcast: ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog
Episode: Outsourcing humanity? International law, humane treatment, and artificial intelligence in detention operations
Description: As artificial intelligence (AI) begins to shape decisions about who is detained in armed conflict and how detention facilities are managed, questions once reserved for science fiction are now urgent matters of law and ethics. The drive to harness data and optimize efficiency risks displacing human judgment from one of the most sensitive areas of warfare: deprivation of liberty. In doing so, AI could strip detainees of what remains of their humanity, reducing them to data points and undermining the core humanitarian guarantees that the Geneva Conventions were designed to protect.
In this post, Terry Hackett, ICRC’s Head of th...