Can the Universal Declaration of Human Rights be of utility in the debates around AI Alignment?

https://emergentagi.blogspot.com/2023/04/udhr-and-alignment.html

#AI #AGI #UNDHR #blogger

Last day of Trans Awareness Week (in Australia),

Three most vulnerable sectors for trans persons are Health/Medicine, Sports and Schools:

On health:
https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2019/release/healthcare-failing-transgender-people2

On Sports:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/let-evidence-not-fear-drive-policies-on-trans-athletes-20220423-p5afm1.html

On Schools:
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/children-youth/australias-children/contents/justice-and-safety/bullying

Overview in Australia:
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/challenging-five-years-of-transphobia

Aust. Politics, reversing a wrong:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-08/transgender-students-teachers-excluded-from-school-protections/100812354
#HumanRights #UNDHR #LBGTI+ #AusPol #Health #Education

The purpose of anti-discrimination legislation is to prevent harm and abuse of individuals, groups and the development of toxic communities. Recognition that universal human rights serves to protect everyone, not just a particular group.
To affirm that harm and abuse is not justifiable.
So it’s extremely disappointing when politicians take advantage of misconceptions within religious and/or feminist to justify the harm and abuse of another minority group.
Living in an internationalised modern community,
Politics needs to remember that injustices rationalised in Australia can often be used in the rationalisation of abuse against Christian and feminist groups in foreign countries.

International day of Tolerance:
A culture of peace and non-violence.

https://www.unesco.org/en/days/tolerance

http://www.toleranceday.org/

#HumanRights #UNDHR #

Trans Awareness Week

Videos to watch:
https://www.hrc.org/resources/trans-awareness-week

Particularly of interest is 'Sports Equality', considering the extremely biased media and political commentary on the issue of 'trans people in community and professional sports' that Australia had experienced the last 3 years.
#HumanRights #UNDHR #LGBTQI + #AntiDiscrimination #Dignity #Sports #Feminism

Trans Awareness Week

Read more starting here:
https://tdor.org.au/

Prejudice and discrimination affects everyone everywhere.
Regardless of a person's actual gender or sexuality, people have been victim to abuse, bullying and discrimination based on prejudiced beliefs about gender and sexuality.

An end of transphobia is a step towards a safer world for everyone, just as ending discrimination based on age, race, ethnicity, religion, etc will make the world safer.
Universal human rights matters.
#HumanRights #UNDHR #LGBTQI + #AntiDiscrimination #Dignity

On this Remembrance day we remember the war said to be 'the war that will end war'.

But how much do we actually 'remember' through school, media and history books?

Australian school history doesn't touch on Australia's role in the fall of Japan's first liberal democratic movement; end of the British-Japanese Alliance; and the rise of ultranationalism post-World War 1. Japanese-Australia War History in Australia tends to be highly biased towards focus on World War 2. Even then, there's little to no mention of Nikkei-Australian soldiers outside of academia: https://newvoices.org.au/volume-10/the-experiences-of-nikkei-australian-soldiers-during-world-war-ii/

In contrast to US academia, which has spent a lot more time reconciling their Nikkei-American history. Including:
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/08/11/742293305/a-century-later-the-treaty-of-versailles-and-its-rejection-of-racial-equality

#RememberanceDay #LestWeForget #TreatyofVersailles #InternationalRelations #UNDHR #AusPol #PMRobertHughes #Racism #WW1 #WW2