Human Rights Centered AI Governance for Emerging Economies
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https://doi.org/10.34306/dhq48472Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence, AI Regulation, Digital Human Rights, Emerging Economies, AI GovernanceAbstract
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly deployed in socially significant domains, creating regulatory challenges concerning privacy, equality, nondiscrimination, transparency, accountability, and access to effective remedies, particularly in emerging economies. This study examines how AI regulation can protect digital human rights while supporting technological innovation and inclusive digital development. The study employs normative legal research combined with comparative legal analysis of international instruments, selected national and regional regulatory frameworks, human-rights instruments, data protection regulations, academic literature, and institutional reports. The analysis finds that AI governance is shifting from voluntary ethical principles to ward rights-based and risk-oriented regulation, but significant implementation gaps remain because of differences in institutional capacity, regulatory maturity, technological infrastructure, technical expertise, and enforcement mechanisms. Based on these findings, the study proposes a human-rights-centered AI governance framework built around four interconnected pillars that encompass rights protection, risk governance, institutional accountability and regulatory adaptability. The framework extends existing AI governance approaches by connecting substantive human-rights protection with preventive risk management, clearly allocated institutional responsibilities, and context sensitive regulatory adaptation for emerging economies. The study concludes that effective AI regulation should be assessed by its capacity to provide meaningful, enforceable, and accessible protection of digital human rights throughout the AI lifecycle while enabling responsible innovation and inclusive socioeconomic development.
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