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Sherif Elsayed-Ali

Sherif Elsayed-Ali

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…

5 min readDec 12, 2019

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In response to “Good” isn’t Good Enough

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Sherif Elsayed-Ali

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…

7 min readJul 16, 2019

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

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Sherif Elsayed-Ali

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…

5 min readOct 12, 2018

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AI ethics and human rights: where we need to go

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Sherif Elsayed-Ali
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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?

9 min readMay 24, 2018

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

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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…

3 min readOct 19, 2017

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Artificial intelligence and the future of human rights

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Sherif Elsayed-Ali
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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…

7 min readAug 4, 2017

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The People’s AI: democratizing AI research and development

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Sherif Elsayed-Ali

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.

11 min readMay 25, 2017

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

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Sherif Elsayed-Ali

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…

1 min readDec 8, 2016

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Sherif Elsayed-Ali

Onwards and upwards

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

4 min readNov 11, 2016

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Sherif Elsayed-Ali

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…

3 min readOct 21, 2016

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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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