Civil society calls on European Parliament to protect people affected by AI in migration
Ahead of the Artificial Intelligence Act vote in the European Parliament, a coalition of human rights organisations is calling on EU lawmakers to include provisions in the proposed EU AI Act to protect people from AI surveillance technologies used in migration.
Numerous organisations, including inter alia the European Digital Rights (EDRi), Access Now, Algorithm Watch, Amnesty International, the Platform for International Cooperation on the Rights of Undocumented Migrants (PICUM), la Ligue des droits humains, the Migrants' Rights Network etc. have signed a statement calling for Members of the European Parliament to ensure the following in the AI Act vote:
- Empower people affected by AI systems, including through rights to effective remedies for the infringement of rights.
- Ensure accountability and transparency for the use of AI, including an obligation on users to conduct and publish a fundamental rights impact assessment before each deployment of a high-risk AI system and meaningfully engage civil society and affected people in this process.
- Prohibit AI systems that pose an unacceptable risk for fundamental rights, including AI in migration contexts to make individual risk assessments and profiles based on personal and sensitive data, and predictive analytic systems when used to interdict, curtail and prevent migration.
For further information, please read the full statement attached below.
For additional information on artificial intelligence used at EU borders, please read this publication from the European Parliament.