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Publications

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This submission to the UK Joint Committee on Human Rights examines the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on fundamental human rights through the emerging framework of epistemic rights. It argues that AI technologies—particularly generative AI, recommender systems, surveillance infrastructures, and neurotechnologies—pose significant risks to the rights to privacy, freedom of thought, access to information, dignity, and the free development of personality as protected under international human rights law. The submission highlights how AI-driven data extraction, hyper-personalisation, deceptive design, and biometric and neural data processing undermine individual autonomy, epistemic justice, and democratic participation. While elements of the UK’s existing legal framework already protect aspects of these rights, the report finds current protections fragmented and insufficiently adapted to AI-mediated harms, especially for children and vulnerable groups. In this submission, we recommend that the UK explicitly recognise epistemic rights within its human rights approach to AI, strengthen regulatory safeguards—particularly for neurotechnologies—and resist utilitarian trade-offs that weaken fundamental rights in the name of innovation or economic growth.

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Read the roundtable report from our policy convening at King’s College, Cambridge with partners AI & Education Community and the Glenlead Centre in November 2026. The report outlines nine tangible recommendations for UK to take a lead on AI & Education policy, covering assessments, teacher training, contestability, pedagogy, supporting research and AI literacy, and commitments to digital inclusion.

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Published by the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights, Harvard Kennedy School for Government, in this report entitled Surveillance Capitalism, Deceptive Designs, and Epistemic Rights Ann Kristin Glenster examines the proliferation of deceptive design and dark patterns online, and how epistemic human rights can be part of the regulatory solution.

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