RightsCon Tunis 2019

There are increasing calls for the tech industry to embrace a rights-centered approach to engagements, especially in high-risk settings. But stakeholders across sectors continue to wrestle with what exactly this means in practical terms. And platform companies in particular are grappling with their relationships to human rights and ethical standards. During this strategic roundtable, participants will collaboratively and candidly talk-through the following discussion questions, based on current real-world situations where these problems are especially acute: What responsibility do companies have for third party content shared or developed on their platforms and the impacts or harms the content may enable? As AI developers create new technology, what expectations will be placed on developers to understand how their customers plan to use the technology? What responsibility do platform companies have to prevent, mitigate or remediate human rights harms for which it is not possible to demonstrate causation or contribution? What would that responsibility look like? Can we align the interests of relevant stakeholders (public and private) to agree on a set of guidelines for platform companies introducing their products in high-risk settings? Participants’ views and experiences will help inform a publication of recommendations for platform companies introducing their technology in high-risk settings.