We address the human rights impacts of artificial intelligence by doing what is most urgently needed: linking documented harms directly to the companies and investors responsible, creating pathways to accountability, and helping to build a vision of human rights-centred AI technology.

While AI offers enormous opportunity for progress, our global database of abuse allegations reveals consistent patterns of harm associated with it, from discriminatory surveillance, environmental impacts, and gender-based violence, to exploitative labour practices across global AI supply chains. We trace these impacts across complex corporate structures to identify responsibility and make this evidence accessible to those positioned to act, including investors, regulators, civil society, and companies.

This work is grounded in a clear expectation: human rights must be a precondition for AI development and deployment, not an afterthought. This requires companies to conduct robust human rights due diligence across their full value chains, engage meaningfully with affected communities, and demonstrate accountability where harm occurs. Human rights-centred AI will require stronger regulation, decisive investor action, and proactive shifts by companies towards responsible conduct.

We contribute to this shift by supporting evidence-based action, centring the experiences of people most affected, particularly in the Global South. Our database shows that AI harms are not isolated or inevitable; they are the result of corporate choices. Different choices can prevent harm and to ensure that AI serves the public good, rather than undermines it.