{"id":4366,"date":"2025-07-18T23:23:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4366\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T23:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:23:17","slug":"why-our-dignity-is-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4366\/","title":{"rendered":"Why our dignity is at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The age of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed our interactions, but threatens human dignity on a worldwide scale, according to a study led by Charles Darwin University (CDU).<\/p>\n

The study, “Human dignity in the age of Artificial Intelligence: an overview of legal issues and regulatory regimes<\/a>,” was published in the Australian Journal of Human Rights.<\/p>\n

Study lead author Dr. Maria Randazzo, an academic from CDU’s School of Law, found the technology was reshaping Western legal and ethical landscapes at unprecedented speed but was undermining democratic values and deepening systemic biases.<\/p>\n

Dr. Randazzo said current regulation failed to prioritize fundamental human rights and freedoms such as privacy, anti-discrimination, user autonomy, and intellectual property rights<\/a>\u2014mainly thanks to the untraceable nature of many algorithmic models.<\/p>\n

Calling this lack of transparency a “black box problem,” Dr. Randazzo said decisions made by deep-learning<\/a> or machine-learning processes were impossible for humans to trace, making it difficult for users to determine if and why an AI model has violated their rights and dignity and seek justice where necessary.<\/p>\n

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Dr Maria Randazzo has found AI reshaped Western legal and ethical landscapes at unprecedented speed. Credit: Charles Darwin University<\/p>\n

“This is a very significant issue that is only going to get worse without adequate regulation,” Dr. Randazzo said.<\/p>\n

“AI is not intelligent in any human sense at all. It is a triumph in engineering, not in cognitive behavior.<\/p>\n

“It has no clue what it’s doing or why\u2014there’s no thought process as a human would understand it, just pattern recognition<\/a> stripped of embodiment, memory, empathy, or wisdom.”<\/p>\n

Currently, the world’s three dominant digital powers\u2014the United States, China, and the European Union\u2014are taking markedly different approaches to AI, leaning on market-centric, state-centric, and human-centric models respectively.<\/p>\n

Dr. Randazzo said the EU’s human-centric approach is the preferred path to protect human dignity, but without a global commitment to this goal, even that approach falls short.<\/p>\n

“Globally, if we don’t anchor AI development to what makes us human\u2014our capacity to choose, to feel, to reason with care, to empathy and compassion\u2014we risk creating systems that devalue and flatten humanity into data points<\/a>, rather than improve the human condition,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Humankind must not be treated as a means to an end.”<\/p>\n

The paper is the first in a trilogy Dr. Randazzo will produce on the topic.<\/p>\n

More information:
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMaria Salvatrice Randazzo et al, Human dignity in the age of Artificial Intelligence: an overview of legal issues and regulatory regimes, Australian Journal of Human Rights (2025). DOI: 10.1080\/1323238X.2025.2483822<\/a><\/p>\n

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