Avijit Ghosh delivers his talk, “Our Rights in an AI Infused Society,” at the What Are We Talking About When We Talk About AI? Symposium. October 9, 2025 at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.

In this episode, Avijit Ghosh examines how artificial intelligence has transformed human rights to the point where it’s increasingly being used to allocate goods and resources, such as deciding who gets matched to certain jobs. AI has fundamentally changed social and economic relationships between people and companies with governmental regulation slow to respond. These rapid technological changes have also resulted in complications regarding data access wherein people’s intellectual property rights are left vulnerable to a company’s unregulated licensing practices. In other words, the absence of regulation in AI has allowed companies to make their own rules when it comes to licensing, often to the detriment of people and rife with bias. For Ghosh, technological development can be done properly if the sole focus is not chasing profit. The future of data access and the role of the human within represents a delicate balance that will continue to be reconfigured as technological progress abounds.

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