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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022)

Artificial Intelligence Conference: Climate Justice, Human Trafficking and Social Media & AI Regulation

AI Threats to Women’s Rights

Implications and Legislations
https://doi.org/10.54873/jolets.v2i2.86
Dr. Matthew Hall
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, BUE
Prof. Andreas Pester
Professor for machine and deep learning, Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science, BUE
Dr. Alex Atanasov
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, BUE

Corresponding Author(s) : Dr. Matthew Hall

matthew.hall@bue.edu.eg

Journal of Law and Emerging Technologies, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022)

Abstract

The last few decades have seen a remarkable increase in the accessibility and capabilities of technologies using artificial intelligence, augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies, which allow users to create new virtual digital worlds, or generate unseen text, images, videos and sound. However, these new spaces have also provided new opportunities to use such technologies to harm women. This article tackles the threat of AI technologies to women’s rights. First, we introduce the deepfake pornography technology based on AI. Second, we expose the gaps in the international legal order governing women's rights against threats posed by those technologies. Then, we provide three examples for domestic/regional legal frameworks which address AI threats to women's rights. These include regulations enacted in some US states, the UK’s pending legislation and a proposal of a European Union law. We highlight the different challenges facing the creation and implementation of those laws. We address the different options for holding someone accountable for violations of women's rights through the Al technologies. We pinpoint the existence of gaps and weaknesses in contemporary legislations addressing Al threats to women's rights. Still we commend the efforts of the above leading jurisdictions that have brought developments in this important subject. Finally, we propose a way to identify the legally responsible entity in order to avoid the socially undesirable behavior that comes from deepfake pornography.

Keywords

Women’s Rights AI Technologies Legislation Deepfake Pornography حقوق المرأة الذكاء الاصطناعي التشريعات المواد الإباحية المنتجة عبر تقنية التزييف العميق
Hall, M., Pester, A., & Atanasov, A. (2022). AI Threats to Women’s Rights: Implications and Legislations. Journal of Law and Emerging Technologies, 2(2), 88–51. https://doi.org/10.54873/jolets.v2i2.86
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