Jay D. Aronson

About

Professor Jay D. Aronson is associated with the Center for Human Rights Science at Carnegie Mellon University. The center's mission is to help level the playing field between people fighting for human rights and those they seek to hold accountable. The center works to ensure that the human rights community has access to the latest data tools and techniques, including machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing. Their approach is adaptive, working closely with human rights practitioners to shape technology to meet their evolving needs. The center is committed to rigorous assessment of the state of human rights worldwide, providing practitioners with tools to identify abuses of power and those affected by them. Their work involves partnerships across the globe, sharing knowledge, tools, and methods to support the human rights community.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Law and economics
• Public administration
• Law
• Computer Science
• Public relations
• Evolutionary biology
• Programming language
• Biology

Selected publications

• New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2018-04-16 · 55 citations

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  New technological innovations offer significant opportunities to promote and protect human rights. At the same time, they also pose undeniable risks. In some areas, they may even be changing what we mean by human rights. The fact that new technologies are often privately controlled raises further questions about accountability and transparency and the role of human rights in regulating these actors. This volume - edited by Molly K. Land and Jay D. Aronson - provides an essential roadmap for unde…

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• Human Rights and Technology: New Challenges for Justice and Accountability

  Annual Review of Law and Social Science · 2020 · 45 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  This review surveys contemporary challenges in the field of technology and human rights. The increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) in decision making in the public and private sectors—e.g., in criminal justice, employment, public service, and financial contexts—poses significant threats to human rights. AI obscures and attenuates responsibility for harms in ways that undermine traditional mechanisms for holding wrongdoers accountable. Further, technologies that scholars and practitioners…

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• Technology and Transitional Justice

  International Journal of Transitional Justice · 2019-02-08 · 13 citations

  articleSenior author

  Journal Article Books Received Get access International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 13, Issue 1, March 2019, Pages 196–197, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijy031 Published: 23 January 2019

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• The Utility of User-Generated Content in Human Rights Investigations

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2018-04-19 · 13 citations

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• The Promise and Peril of Human Rights Technology

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2018-04-19 · 11 citations

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01HG005702

  NIH · $1.2M · 2015

• NIH Grant R03HG004655

  NIH · $153k · 2011

Frequent coauthors

• Molly K. Land

  University of Connecticut

  7 shared

• Junwei Liang

  4 shared

• Taylor B. Seybolt

  3 shared

• Baruch Fischhoff

  Carnegie Mellon University

  3 shared

• Alexander G. Hauptmann

  3 shared

• Simon A. Cole

  University of California, Irvine

  2 shared

• Alex Hauptmann

  Carnegie Mellon University

  2 shared

• Phuong Pham

  Brigham and Women's Hospital

  2 shared

Education

• Ph.D., History of Science and Technology

  University of Minnesota

  2004

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