María López Belloso (Santurtzi, 1979)[1] is a Basque lawyer, jurist, human rights activist and writer.
[7] She obtained her doctorate in law and human rights at the University of Deusto in 2017 with the thesis "The processes of truth, justice and reparation for victims of forced disappearance in the Western Sahara conflict", directed by Carlos Martín Beristain and Felipe Gomez Isa.
[3][4] Between 2005 and 2009 she was a researcher in the field of human rights at the University of the Basque Country and the HEGOA Institute for Development and International Cooperation Studies.
[citation needed] In 2018 she was a speaker at the International Congress on Human Rights, together with the computer scientist Borja Sanz Urquijo, with the conference "Hic Sunt draconis: Human Rights and Big data, analysis of an unexplored collaboration", on the effect that big data and artificial intelligence (AI) can have on human rights.
[13] She specializes in the challenges that artificial intelligence (AI) can bring to human rights.