Agora: Selected Aspects of Intersections Among Artifcial Intelligence, Law, and the Right to Life

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems pose both immediate and long-term risks to hu-man rights, necessitating AI governance that aligns with international norms and princi-ples, including respect for human rights.Human rights are a well-established concept in legal discourse, and the right to life has, since the earliest codifications of human rights law, been recognised as the supreme right from which no derogation is permitted—even in situations of armed conflict or other public emergencies that threaten the life of a nation.