Privacy International’s submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education
Privacy International’s submitted its input to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education for their forthcoming report to the General Assembly in October 2024 on the theme of Artificial intelligence in education and its human rights-based use at the service of the advancement of the right to education.
Key advocacy points
- PI's submission highlights the harms for human rights associated with the use of AI within educational institutions and the additional safeguards and precautions that should be taken when implementing AI in EdTech.
- In this submission, PI also provides examples of AI tools and systems used in education processes.
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Post date
27th August 2024
In May 2024, we made a submission for the forthcoming report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education to the General Assembly in October 2024.
Amongst others we recommend the UN Special Rapporteur for this upcoming report to:
- Underline the need for a human rights-based approach to all AI systems in the education sector and describe the necessary measures to achieve it.
- Reassert that any interference with the right to privacy and the advancement of the right to education due to the use of AI technologies should be subject to the overarching principles of legality, necessity, and proportionality.
- Recommend that companies providing AI systems to education institutions should be required to waive commercial confidentiality and make their technologies fully auditable by any third party.
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