Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies as factors in the formation of a new generation of human and civil rights: Theoretical and Legal Analysis

This article is devoted to the study of the possibilities of artificial intelligence in the field of ensuring and protecting human rights and freedoms. The main threats and risks of digitalization arising in the process of protecting human rights and freedoms are considered. In particular, the rights to Internet access, privacy rights, rights to personal data protection, etc. The available possibilities of using artificial intelligence in the field of human rights protection are analyzed and possible ways of their development are determined. Within the framework of this article, it is proposed to consider digital rights as a new generation of human rights that needs theoretical and legal construction and constitutional legal consolidation. Accordingly, the authors of this article aim to analyze the legal structure of «digital rights» in the public legal dimension in the context of the influence of artificial intelligence and digital technologies on them. The methodological basis consists of formal legal, systemic and comparative legal methods. The axiological approach used by the authors is of great importance for the analysis of the current state of the legal status of a person and the prospects for its improvement in the conditions of digital reality. The analysis of a significant array of international legal documents and Russian normative legal acts allows the authors to substantiate the emergence of a new category of human and civil rights – digital, in need of constitutional and legal consolidation. 

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