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7 - The Fourth Generation of Human Rights: Epistemic Rights in Life 2.0 and Life 3.0

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2023

Mathias Risse
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
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British writer H. G. Wells was a major advocate for a universal declaration of human rights of the kind later passed in 1948. Wells paid much attention to the importance of knowledge for his era, more than found its way into the actual declaration. At this stage, an enhanced set of epistemic rights that strengthen existing human rights – as part of a fourth generation of human rights – is needed to protect epistemic actorhood in those four roles introduced in Chapter 5. Epistemic rights are already exceedingly important because of the epistemic intrusiveness of digital lifeworlds in Life 2.0, and they should also include a suitably defined right to be forgotten (that is, a right to have certain information removed from easy accessibility through internet searches). If Life 3.0 does emerge, we might also need a right altogether different from what is currently acknowledged as human rights, the right to exercise human intelligence to begin with. The required argument for the validity of the right to the exercise of human intelligence can draw on the secular meaning-of-life literature. I paint with a broad brush when it comes to the detailed content of proposed rights, offering them manifesto-style.

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Political Theory of the Digital Age
Where Artificial Intelligence Might Take Us
, pp. 137 - 159
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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