Operationalizing human rights in AI: The need for a comprehensive framework

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping societies, economies, and governance systems, offering significant opportunities for innovation and sustainable development. However, the design, development, deployment and governance of AI systems must align with human rights and values to ensure they are inclusive, transparent, accountable and safe.

This session brings together perspectives from governance, human rights, and technical standardization to explore how AI systems can be developed and governed in a manner that upholds human rights, promotes responsible innovation, and supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Rather than focusing on abstract risks, the discussion will center on practical approaches to embedding human-centric principles into AI development and deployment, with an emphasis on transparency, accountability, and participation. A key focus of the event is the discussion of a framework to guide the integration of human rights impact assessment into standardization processes.