A very topical and broad reaching title, covering several areas such as human exploitation to data mining and copyright. This is a fast changing area but covers right up to Dec 2023 and looks at not just USA based law but UK, EU and beyond. I would recommend to anyone interested in the ethical issues of generative and LLM AI.

Thank you Netgalley and Atlantic Books for the ARC.

I'm perhaps a bit more advanced on the topic of AI than the target audience of this book as it was part of my research during my masters degree - so some parts of the book topic wise I knew of well, however even as someone well schooled on the topic the book gave a worthy refresher and additional information in the areas I was less familiar with like Care Bots, that chapter in particular I found intriguing and certainly something I want to look into further as I honestly knew very very little on that side of things.

Definitely a book I would recommend to someone wanting the layperson introduction of AI Ethics and it's challenges as well as a primer for discussion on such a topic.

In "Human Rights, Robot Wrongs", Susie Alegre takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of several spheres in which the interactions between AI and humans are expected to have a tremendous impact on the latter. These spheres range from care provisions, justice, war and the aspects that make us human like our ingenuity and our creativity. Each of the chapters could easily be expanded to fill a a full book (and some of them already have been). The author's premise is that the foreseeable issues do not require new legislation, but can already be handled with the Human Rights Laws which date back to post-WW II when policies were put in place to save humanity from itself, at its most depraved.

This book will not teach you how AI works but it will certainly explain to a significant degree the issues that face us when extrapolating the developments that are already in motion, be it the loss of compassion in care provision, emerging misogyny by literally objectifying another sex in robot form, replacing the role of an accountable human for an unaccountable AI in warfare as well as the huge cost in both environmental, monetary and emotional terms of keeping today's algorithms humming. The author has managed to succinctly (in less than 200 pages), put the human finger to the AI pulse on a plethora of issues and will have the reader hungry for a further elucidation on these matters.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book and would recommend it to those readers that are not interested in a detailed explanation on how AI works, but instead want an understanding of where a world with AI is heading (without becoming depressed).

This is an important book and in today's world, an essential read I would say.

It is a brilliant compilation of the public cases we have had involving AI and how these cases gives us a glimpse on how this technological advancement is gonna affect our human rights going forward.

In a professional setting, as a scientist, we always talk about how brilliant new technologies are in making our jobs many times more efficient and how AI is a key tool in helping us solve world problems. However, we fail to look at how catastrophic AI can be if misused - and it has already been misused plenty. Using technology effectively and for the good needs to involve policing it and monitoring it and for our laws to adapt just as quickly, this is not happening - so works like this book bring in important conversations and makes us aware of the current and potential issues.

‘Human Rights, Robot Wrongs’ delves into the connections between human rights and the past, present, and future of AI. Covering everything from an overview of the risks and benefits of AI to surprising case studies of the recent past, to potential negative impacts of AI on human rights now and in the future.

Susie Alegre provides a comprehensive yet largely anecdotal overview, detailed yet accessible in a manner that proves useful to those who know little about AI and to those well-versed alike.

I chose to request this arc as I've been actively seeking to learn more about the growing field of AI. This book proved to be an excellent starting point for my own education, and I would recommend it to anyone looking to educate themselves.

AI has, continues to, and likely always will impact our day-to-day lives, thus increasingly shaping the ways in which our human rights play out and protect us. Educating ourselves is vital, and this book is as good a place as any to start.

Thank you to NetGalley and Atlantic Books for the e-arc. All opinions are my own.

Before I begin my review, I want to clarify that I am a healthcare professional with a research portfolio that focuses on ethical use of artificial intelligence. So, I am by no means uncritical to the negative aspects or possibilities of runaway artificial intelligence use. Quite the opposite, I often advocate for a slow-down of development as a trade-off for safety. However, I felt that Human Rights, Robot Wrongs reads incredibly biased against technological development.

The positives: Alegre does a great job introducing a wide range of topics across the technology spectrum, from military AI to carebots. In particular, chapter 8 entitled "Magic Pixie Dust" handles its topic well. This is where Alegre discusses pressing matters of modern-day slavery, environmental impacts, and other consequences and choices that are kept "out of sight and out of mind". These aren't discussed enough, and certainly not enough in public facing books like this one.

The negatives: In covering so many topics, Alegre can only provide each topic a surface-level scan. However, in doing so, I fear the book assumes its audience can't handle important and necessary details and nuance. I've taught a general AI Ethics course for 1st and 2nd year undergraduates, which covers nearly everything this book does in a wide scope, surface-level approach. If one of my students presented me with a paper written like these chapters, I'd criticize it for being uncharitable to opposing arguments and the field.

Thank you to both #NetGalley and Atlantic Books for providing me an advance copy of renowned human rights #lawyer Susie Alegre’s #nonfiction work, Human Rights, Robot Wrongs
A Manifesto for Humanity in the Age of AI, in exchange for an honest review.

#HumanRightsRobotWrongs argues that human rights law should be enshrined in the foundation, legislation, and the lens through which global societies view and oversee AI and other emerging technologies. The book contains nine chapters, which each tackle a separate designated purpose for AI, such as sex robots (e.g., dating app #algorithms, #deepfake porn) and killer robots (e.g., drones, #VR combat). Then describes the human rights issues associated with those technologies.

The author prefaces that the content is an analysis of #AI with a “human slant” rather than a technological discussion. It is clear she is passionate and extremely knowledgeable about human rights law. Despite the disclaimer, it is difficult to refrain from criticizing the lack of technological material given the work’s title and subject matter. It also may have bolstered her recommendations. Instead, the reader was treated to surface level anecdotes that offered some interesting facts, but no new solutions—only sweeping generalities that have been repeated ad nauseum throughout legal tech communities as well as the work itself.

As mentioned in the introduction, the book was intended for laypersons and those unfamiliar with the risks of deploying AI systems. The author has a knack for simplifying otherwise tedious topics and creating an intriguing story. It is a good read for those interested in the potential ramifications to human rights and how to recognize when the effects of a technology may be depriving society of one or more of those rights.

For readers who are better versed on the subject, however, it makes for a brief read, but will not necessarily provide any novel information. Additionally, there are some glaring errors when glossing over the technological components that may detract from the overall message for those with deeper insight. On a personal and final note, I only wish that the verve of the introduction had been sustained throughout the work.

I got this for review on netgally.

I'm a bit uncomfortable with the whole AI thing and when I saw this arc I was more then intruiged to read it. It shifts from diffrent ways of AI, the good and the bad and do start a good conversation. I learned a lot I didn't know about AI. I recommend this book if your interested in hearing more about it and what can go wrong.