Written by: Haim Ravia, and Dotan Hammer
Israel signed the Council of Europe’s Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights. The treaty was finalized in May 2024. It was drafted with multinational representatives, including numerous Israeli officials representing the Ministries of Science, Technology and Space, Justice, and Foreign Affairs, the Innovation Authority, and the National Digital Agency. The USA and Canada acted as observer states in the drafting process.
The treaty spans eight chapters, detailing the obligations, principles, and remedies in the field of AI, instructions on the convention’s implementation, and the multi-lateral cooperation mechanisms it creates.
The convention mainly focuses on AI use in the public sector (with the exceptions of military and national security uses), and calls for special commitment to human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. The convention requires transparency and oversight, including marking AI-generated content.
Parties to the convention are required to adopt measures to identify potential risks and evaluate mitigatory steps to reduce or prevent them. Additionally, AI development is required to ensure safeguarding equality and privacy and provide legal remedies for protecting victims of human rights infringement by AI systems.
Click here to read the treaty.
