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About the event
Artificial intelligence is reshaping our world – but at what cost?
Join Rasha Abdul Rahim, an expert on technology, human rights, and social justice, in conversation with Barbara Weber, Director Global Strategy and Governance at Amnesty International for an in-depth discussion on the dual role of AI in human rights.
Rasha Abdul Rahim, an expert on technology, human rights, and social justice, in conversation with Barbara Weber, Director Global Strategy and Governance at Amnesty International engage in an in-depth discussion on the dual role of AI in human rights.
From using AI and machine learning to uncover abuses and violations to the growing risks of surveillance, bias, and corporate power, this session explores how we can harness technology for good while resisting its harms. With insights from Rasha’s work spanning digital rights advocacy, spyware investigations, and Big Tech accountability the conversation challenges us to rethink the future of AI and justice.
Please note that this event is independent of the speakers’ current or former work with Amnesty International.
Go Deeper
As a supplement to the conversation itself, Human Rights expert Rasha Abdul Rahim provided participants with a number of resources which dive deeper into the subject of AI and Human Rights.
Register for Amnesty International´s Digital Security and Human Rights Course. People who take this course will learn:
- How digital security is a matter of claiming your human rights.
- Some of the major threats in the digital world, and how to protect yourself against them.
- How to defend your rights to privacy and freedom of expression.
- The core mechanisms and key players in mass surveillance.
- How to take action to promote digital security and human rights worldwide.
Course Duration: 3h
Read Amnesty International´s TikTok Report “Driven into Darkness” which includes a chapter on methodology for technical investigation.
A Technical Report into Online Abuse Against Women on Twitter by Amnesty International.
Berkeley Human Rights Investigations Lab equips the next generation of lawyers, journalists, advocates, and researchers with critical investigation tools to tackle human rights challenges in the 21st century. Hundreds of students have been trained in our Lab to conduct hands-on digital investigations related to human rights violations around the world. Rasha highly recommends this resource for organizations looking to adopt AI or other technologies in human rights research.
AWO was set up by a group of experts: lawyers who were involved in groundbreaking and precedent-setting legal action, public policy experts who were shaping digital policy in the EU and the UK, and data protection practitioners who were helping international organisations and companies meet complex international challenges. AWO provides guidance for small and medium sized NGOs as they develop internal guidelines for the use of AI.
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About the Speakers
Rasha Abdul Rahim
Rasha Abdul Rahim is a strategist, and independent expert on technology, human rights and social justice issues. She is also currently the Interim Executive Director of People vs Big Tech, a movement of over 145 organisations in Europe fighting to overturn the predatory business model of Big Tech corporations and change the internet for good. Before that, Rasha spent 15 years at Amnesty International in various roles, and was the Director of Amnesty Tech from 2020-2024, where she oversaw global research, campaigning, advocacy and policy development on various tech issues, and established two new teams focusing on AI and human rights and children’s digital rights. She also co-led the award-winning Pegasus Project in collaboration with Forbidden stories, a groundbreaking global investigation which exposed the scale of abuse of Pegasus spyware. Before specialising in technology and human rights, she worked on arms control and played a central role in Amnesty International’s campaign to secure the landmark Arms Trade Treaty.
Barbara Weber
Barbara Weber has been Director Global Strategy and Impact at Amnesty International’s International Secretariat since March 2020. Before that she was Global Director Human Rights Education for five years. Prior to joining Amnesty’s global space, she led and managed Amnesty International Austria, prior to this assignment, she established and headed a Human Rights Academy and shaped Amnesty Austria’s Activism and Campaigning work (2003 – 2014). Prior to working with Amnesty International she worked on Anti-Discrimination on the European level. She started her career in the human rights field at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (1997 – 2002).
Barbara Weber holds a master’s degree in Conflict Resolution from the University of Bradford/ UK, Department of Peace Studies and a Magistra degree from the University of Vienna/ AT.