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In response to “Good” isn’t Good Enough

In his paper “Good” isn’t Good Enough for the 2019 edition of NeurIPS, Ben Green critiques the “for good” movement in computer science. It…

Dec 12, 2019

In response to “Good” isn’t Good Enough

Dec 12, 2019

The Future of Human Rights: the climate crisis, economic and social rights, and systems thinking

*This piece summarizes a paper I published for my fellowship with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, which…

Jul 16, 2019

The Future of Human Rights: the climate crisis, economic and social rights, and systems thinking

Jul 16, 2019

AI ethics and human rights: where we need to go

In May 2018, Amnesty International, Access Now, and a handful of partner organizations launched the Toronto Declaration on protecting the…

Oct 12, 2018

AI ethics and human rights: where we need to go

Oct 12, 2018

Published in
Data & Society: Points

The challenge from AI: is “human” always better?

Is machine or human decision-making better? Do robots have rights? Will human rights survive machine and human evolution?

May 24, 2018

The challenge from AI: is “human” always better?

May 24, 2018

Published in
Amnesty Insights

Artificial intelligence and the future of human rights

Amnesty International started its first structured programme of work on technology and human rights about three years ago, largely in…

Oct 19, 2017

Artificial intelligence and the future of human rights

Oct 19, 2017

Published in
Intuition Machine

The People’s AI: democratizing AI research and development

What if, instead of AI research and development being dominated by giant tech companies, there was a global public AI research institution…

Aug 4, 2017

The People’s AI: democratizing AI research and development

Aug 4, 2017

Artificial intelligence: how it impacts human rights and what we should do about it

It was a pleasant 21 degrees in New York when computers defeated humanity. Or so many people thought.

May 25, 2017

Artificial intelligence: how it impacts human rights and what we should do about it

May 25, 2017

It’s 2036 and privacy is dead

If we don’t want to wake up in 10 years time to a world where privacy is dead, we need to act now. I wrote a piece for openDemocracy on why…

Dec 8, 2016

Dec 8, 2016

Onwards and upwards

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” Martin Luther King Jr.

Nov 11, 2016

Nov 11, 2016

Ranking messaging apps on encryption and human rights

We’ve gotten a fair bit of (expected) criticism over at Amnesty because Facebook topped our assessment of companies behind messaging apps…

Oct 21, 2016

Ranking messaging apps on encryption and human rights

Oct 21, 2016

Sherif Elsayed-Ali

Sherif Elsayed-Ali

Born in Paris, grew up in Cairo and live in London. Dad of two. Liberal, occasional tree hugger. I work on tech for the climate and human rights at Element AI.

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