United Nations Human Rights Council

Draft Resolution 1.2

Sponsors: Republic of Chile, Republic of Iceland, Republic of Panama, United Kingdom of

Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Signatories: Angola, Belgium, Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, China, Croatia,
Hungary, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Senegal, Slovakia, South
Korea, Togo, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates

Topic: Artificial Intelligence

The United Nations Human Rights Council,

Fully aware of the rapid innovation surrounding artificial intelligence

Convinced of artificial intelligence’s potential and global effect

Recognizing the need to define the significance that artificial intelligence is having on today’s
society

Guided by the principle of global improvement aided by artificial intelligence

Contemplating artificial intelligence’s place in the world

Advising an ethical change to set a precedent on how to effectively establish guidelines on the
advancements of AI’s

1. Recommends that member states interested in partaking in the international community

moving towards the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) adopt laws, guidelines, and
regulations with the following ethical principles in mind:
a. AI should be developed for the benefit of humanity,
b. AI should operate on intelligibility and fairness,
c. AI should not be used to diminish data rights or privacy for humankind,
d. All citizens of the world have the right to be educated in a way that allows them
to flourish alongside AI,
e. AI should never be used to hurt, destroy, or deceive human beings;
2. Suggests that nations, both developed and developing, promote Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Math (STEM) education of their citizens, especially young girls, to allow
them to gain skills and knowledge of how Artificial Intelligence operates and can be used for
the common good, through the use of:
 a. Vocational training and workshops, seminars, and the implementation of STEM
curriculum in primary, secondary, and tertiary education,
b. The non-profit, Organization For Women In The Developing World, which
provides,
i. Research training,
ii. Career development,
iii. Networking opportunities for women scientists at different
stages in their careers,
iv. Funding for research opportunities for women looking to
further the field of AI,
c. Teachers Without Borders for personnel, resources, and a curriculum that would
include:
i. Discussing the positive impacts of AI,
ii. Provide a clear definition for AI which would include the
following:
1. Technologies, programs, and systems with the ability to
perform tasks that would otherwise require human
intelligence,
2. Technologies, programs, and systems capable of visual
perception, speech recognition, and language translation
3. Endorses that both the public and private sectors be utilized for the purpose of advancing AI
which would constitute:
a. A collaborative effort of both the public and private sectors for both
technological advancement,
b. Funding for research and development establishments in AI and machine
learning be a burden shared equally between the two sectors,
c. The inclusion of research as an aspect to further develop AI technology within
the sectors,
d. That with regard to its potential commercial value, publicly-held data be made
available to AI researchers and developers, stressing important on digitizing
 records in unified comparable format and be subject to appropriate
anonymization measures;
4. Affirms that member states must recognize the sovereignty of nations, more specifically,
their right to decide how to defend themselves and their interests through the use of
automated weapons, clarifying the distinction of automated and fully autonomous weapons
being as:
a. An automated weapon is defined as being:
i. A system that responds to inputs from one or more sensors,
ii. A program that logically follows a predefined set of rules in
order to provide a desired outcome,
b. An autonomous weapon being categorized as a system capable of understanding
higher-level intent and direction, and able to perceive its environment without
depending on human oversight or control;
5. Calls upon nations to utilize author time tools and systems for auditing and testing training
datasets to ensure they are representative of diverse populations and would ensure that AI
system training is not likely to lead to prejudicial decisions;
6. Desires the utilization of AI for the improvement of healthcare, medical research, and
medicine within developed and developing nations which would:
a. Form communication regarding artificial intelligence between researchers in all
nations interested in furthering the advances of AI in healthcare and medicine,
b. Develop the most accurate, clear, and detailed technology which can:
i. Prevent misdiagnosis resulting in detriment to the patient,
ii. Improve efficiency by providing data that is more easily
interpreted,
iii. Diagnose disease and conditions in their earlier stages,
c. Provide prosthetic and other orthopedic technology by partnering with Össur, a
global leader in orthopedic technology dedicated to keeping people mobile,
d. Incentivize researchers to produce more cost-effective technology with grants,
e. Implement artificial intelligence deemed successful in health facilities such as:
i. Hospitals
ii. Clinics
 iii. Research centers;
7. Emphasizes the ability of AI to improve the insurance of basic human rights, outlined in the
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, for individuals in developing countries, such
as access food, water, and shelter through partnerships with:
a. The World Food Programme (WFP) that brings food assistance to more than 80
countries by:
i. Utilizing AI in regards to trucks, planes, and ships that deliver
the food,
ii. Investing in local business and smallholder farmers so they
may utilize AI,
b. Janicki, a Seattle-based engineering firm, which uses an omniprocessor to
convert sewage and human waste into clean, drinkable water,
c. Eole Water, a company dedicated to using technology to produce clean water,
harnesses water already present in the atmosphere through the use of generators,
to make drinking water,
d. Charity Water, a non-profit organization, to alleviate the deficiency of clean
water and sanitation across less developed countries across the globe and would:
i. Implement AI into their technology to easily execute the
process of extracting water,
ii. Assist in the process, distribution and the delivery of water,
sanitation and hygiene services in developing countries
e. The Agromonic Simulation and Agroclimatic Information (SAIA) to increase
volume, to conceive phenological data, and quality of production;
f. Building System Planning, a company focused on building Information
Modeling software in AI technology to build homes that are sound and in an
efficient manner;
8. Further recommends that nations work with other committees and organizations, to help
alleviate poverty and improve education and the economies of the developing world,
including but not limited to:
a. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),
b. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),
 c. World Health Organization (WHO),
d. Doctors Without Borders,
e. Red Cross;
9. Supports the following options for the funding for all the aforementioned recommendations,
including but not limited to:
a. Scholarships meant to improve technology in developing countries that are
funded by:
i. Microsoft,
ii. Nokia,
iii. Canon,
b. Financial assistance from willing and able member states, such as the United
Kingdom and Iceland,
c. The use of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund,
d. The World Bank.