Navigating Accountability and Human Rights in AI-Powered Supply Chains

AI in global supply chains transforms how goods are produced, monitored, and distributed. While AI-powered systems improve efficiency, transparency, and decision-making, they introduce challenges related to accountability and human rights. Automated decision processes may deprioritize labor condition responsibilities, environmental harm, or data misuse, particularly across international organizations. As supply chains become more technologically driven, ensuring respect for human rights and clear accountability mechanisms becomes more essential. Exploring these issues may help balance innovation with ethical responsibility in AI-driven supply chain management. Navigating Accountability and Human Rights in AI-Powered Supply Chains explores the technologies reshaping global supply chains and the ethical governance models required to manage them. It examines the corporate adoption of centralized, AI-powered platforms for risk management and the emergence of decentralized, blockchain-based systems designed for grassroots, stakeholder-driven accountability. This book covers topics such as global business, social responsibility, and smart manufacturing, and is a useful resource for business owners, engineers, policymakers, academicians, researchers, and scientists.