Artificial intelligence and the right to memory

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/rqi.2023.72636

Keywords:

human rights / right to memory / right to identity / neuro-rights / artificial intelligence

Abstract

Abstract

Background

As an exploratory research, our paper aims to describe how social media platforms are reshaping our processes of memory-making. Artificial intelligence, algorithms and deep learning are changing the situation we dig into our past radically and forever, determining what is memorable to us. We relate the right to identity with individual memory and the incidence of memory processes in the identity of each person. Finally, we characterize the way in which technology alters our memory through different ways.

Methods

This is basic research. We use qualitative methods to understand people's beliefs, experiences, attitudes, behavior, and interactions with social media and AI. We make use of sources of international and domestic Law.

Results

Results have implications for new well-being interventions which take into account the relationship between internet and AI on human memory and the incidence they have in the re-creation of the human right to identity.

Conclusions

We as humans increasingly tend to rely on the internet as an external hard drive of memories. This change deprives us of the natural process of remembering things. In due time, individual changes in the process of remembering will impact the social process, changing as a result the social memory of a community. As a result, the personal and the social categories of the right to identity will also be altered.

Author Biography

Favio Farinella, Centre for International Law - Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

I currently work as Director of the Research Centre of International Law in
Mar del Plata National University, Buenos Aires, Argentina. In this capacity I
propose, set and organize post graduate courses and conferences,
supervise post-graduate students, conduct research projects and
coordinate and teach public international law and human rights.
I act as representative of my Faculty of Law in the International relations
Office of the University. In this capacity I negotiate academic and cultural
agreements with other American and European universities and institutions.
I 've just completed my post-doctoral studies on “Social Sciences and
Humanities in a Post-Crisis Period”, offered by the European Scientific
Institute based in Spain (Universidad de Almeria). My work was supervised
by Professor Carlos Azcoitia (Professor Emeritus, National Louis University,
Chicago, US).

Public International Law and Regional Integration
Director of the Seminars on the International Law of
Human Rights
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1994 - Prese
nt
Senior Professor since 2018. Associate since 1994, in charge of writing
the syllabus, teaching, and coordinating the work of about 14
professors and assistants who teach two semesters each year.

 

Visiting Professor
European and American Universities | 1996
I held visiting appointments at Universidad de Almeria (Almeria, Spain
2022), Universidad Autónoma de las Américas, Universidad del Área
Andina, Universidad Católica de Pereira, Universidad de Manizales
(Colombia 2018 and 2019); Universidad de Brasilia (Brazil, 2019);
Kalliopi Koufa Foundation and Aristotle University (Thessaloniki, 2017
and 2018); Leiden University (Leiden and The Hague, the Netherlands,
1993, 1999 and 2006/7); Roehampton University (London, UK, 2009);
Seoul National University (South Korea, 1997/1998); Fundação Getulio
Vargas and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil, 1996).

Scholarships
I have been granted scholarships from the
Organisation of American States -OAS-;
Korea Foundation and Seoul National University, South Korea;
UNESCO, Paris;
European Commission; Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies;
Erasmus Mundus Human Rights Practice;
International Committee of the Red Cross;
Kalliopi Koufa Foundation;
Universitarian Foundation Rio de la Plata;
the International Development Law Institute;
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro; etc

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Published

2023-12-12

How to Cite

Farinella, F. (2023). Artificial intelligence and the right to memory. REVISTA QUAESTIO IURIS, 16(2), 976–996. https://doi.org/10.12957/rqi.2023.72636

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 2 (2023): REVISTA QUAESTIO IURIS - VOL. 16, N°02

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ENSAIOS/ESSAY

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