Unveiling the Virtual Voyeur

Abstract

In the recent past, while humans have been relentlessly working like machines, machines have developed abilities to think like humans. With exponential technological advancements in robotics and machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a word we hear more often than we wish to. AI can very briefly be described as machines' ability to think and decide on their own without human interference. This ability of AI to imitate human behaviour has made the world both excited and worried simultaneously. While AI has been used in research and to predict algorithms, social scientists are worried about the sudden, unregulated interference of AI into our lives and its impact on human rights. In this chapter, the authors discuss how AI and super-technology can be a threat to human rights, primarily with respect to the right to privacy and why there is a dire need to regulate the development and use of AI for the protection of human rights.