For AI to work for us, it will have to stop pretending to be us

> However, the responsibility of protecting the world we live in cannot be pushed onto the very people who have the least power to shape these technologies. Right now, decisions are being made in rooms that most of us will never have access to, and still, we are the ones expected to live with the consequences. A human rights approach means challenging that imbalance and insisting that accountability sits where power does. > > And maybe that also means we should be sceptical from the very beginning, not after harm has already been done, but at the point where these technologies are introduced and commercialised. It is in our interest to ask uncomfortable questions early on, like where does this come from, who built it, how does it work, and who actually benefits from it? Because without that, we end up accepting these systems as if they were inevitable, instead of seeing them for what they are: choices. And in doing so, we lose sight of the fundamental idea that the future should be built around living beings, and not optimised for machines.