Saving global human rights: A “Global South + AI” strategy
本文提出西方应实施一项聚焦发展与AI的“全球南方+AI”人权战略，以在意识形态竞争中推动南方国家采纳人权友好政策。
Human rights are under threat in both the physical and digital domains. The steady rise of authoritarianism and autocracies, and the increasing characterization of human rights as conditional and situational, is making their future uncertain. The rise of the Global South holds the key to their future, which is tied to ICT and AI. Both the West (US, EU, and allies) and the East (China, Russia, and allies) blocs are aligning with the development aspirations of the South to gain support for their respective agendas. This change is being played out in the midst of an ongoing process at the United Nations for a new policy of “inclusive multilateralism” and “sovereignty reimagined,” friendlier to the South. Human rights are up for grabs in this contest, especially in places where they have no natural heritage. Only if a sufficient number of these nations see that human rights values are enablers of national Well-being will they be adopted. If the West wants to advance its views of human rights, it must show that they go hand-in-hand with development and an improved quality of life. To increase the adoption of human-rights friendly policies will require collaboration by the West with the South. Human rights are caught in the midst of a global struggle for ideological dominance. To save them, this paper proposes implementation by the West of a “Global South + AI” human rights strategy focused on development and AI.