Artificial intelligence is becoming our new reality, which means we need to deal with it and regulate it. In addition to all the benefits that technological development brings to mankind, it has also proved to be a threat and a violation of many human rights. In an age when algorithms are at almost every turn, we must be particularly vigilant to respect and protect our human dignity, which is the cornerstone of all human rights. In this Master's thesis, we examine the impact of artificial intelligence on the right to privacy and the right to a fair trial. The former right is particularly under attack due to the ability of artificial intelligence to process huge amounts of data, which poses major challenges for the regulation of data protection and the need to restructure this area of law. New legal and ethical challenges are also unlocked because artificial intelligence greatly improves biometric technologies. These bring new ways of interfering with the right to privacy and changing its traditional concepts. For the second right, we hypothesized that using artificial intelligence in judicial processes is often incompatible with the right to a fair trial under Article 6 of the ECHR. We found that the main problem with the incompatibility of artificial intelligence with this right is its non-transparency. The essence of the Master's thesis is to underline the importance of protecting human rights in the age of artificial intelligence. These must be at the heart of its regulation to strike the right balance between innovation and the protection of human rights.
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