The Toronto Declaration
Access Now and Amnesty International · May 2018
Civil society declarationStill cited in rights based AI advocacy; no enforcement mechanism, and harms continue to be documented.
One of the first major documents to frame AI harms as human-rights violations rather than technical glitches.
What it calls for
- Equality and non discrimination in machine learning systems
- Human rights due diligence by companies and states
- Accountability and remedy for algorithmic harm
Scope
Endorsed by hundreds of organizations and individuals
What actually happened
Rights groups continue to invoke it in policy fights; it informed later human-rights-based AI frameworks.