The EU releases guidelines to encourage ethical AI development

guest · Apr 8, 2019

The EU releases guidelines to encourage ethical AI development
They list seven requirements for trustworthy AI
April 8, 2019
https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/08/eu-ai-ethics-guidelines/

No technology raises ethical concerns (and outright fear) quite like artificial intelligence. And it's not just individual citizens who are worried.
Today, the European Commission released its own guidelines calling for "trustworthy AI."

According to the EU, AI should adhere to the basic ethical principles of respect for human autonomy, prevention of harm, fairness and accountability. The guidelines include seven requirements -- listed below -- and call particular attention to protecting vulnerable groups, like children and people with disabilities. They also state that citizens should have full control over their data.

This summer, the Commission will work with stakeholders to identify areas where additional guidance might be necessary and figure out how to best implement and verify its recommendations. In early 2020, the expert group will incorporate feedback from the pilot phase.
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Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI (PDF - 1.22 MB): https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=58477

guest · Jun 9, 2020

Trustworthy AI Initiative Launched
June 9, 2020
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/trustworthy-ai-initiative-launched/

A digital intelligence company has launched a global initiative to promote the development of trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

ABBYY was moved to take action by the growing prevalence of AI systems in our day-to-day lives and the anticipated growth in expectation for those systems to be fair, transparent, and ethical.
To get the ball rolling, ABBYY has publicized its core guiding principles on developing, maintaining, and promoting trustworthy AI technologies. The company is now advocating for other technology leaders to do likewise.

“Innovation and ethics go hand in hand. As the use of AI grows, it is important for technology leaders to adhere to and promote the use of technologies that are transparent, fair, unbiased and respect data privacy,” commented Anthony Macciola, chief innovation officer at ABBYY.
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guest · Jul 25, 2020

ODNI issues guiding principles for ethical artificial intelligence
July 23, 2020
https://www.fedscoop.com/odni-guiding-principles-ai/

The Office of the Director for National Intelligence issued guidance Thursday for the intelligence community‘s ethical development and use of artificial intelligence.
The two documents — new principles and a supporting framework — aim to set a foundation for how and when members of the IC should use, develop and procure AI applications.

The principles are simply a set of basic ideas with brief explanations. None of them is unexpected or ventures into uncharted territory in the development of AI.
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guest · Aug 15, 2021

VA Official Charts Progress on AI Trustworthy Framework
August 13, 2021
https://www.meritalk.com/articles/va-official-charts-progress-on-ai-trustworthy-framework/

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) – which has already made much use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to provide more efficient, effective, and responsive services for its users – is also working on an AI trustworthiness framework that aims to avoid biases that can result from use of the technology, explained a VA official during a virtual GovLoop training on August 12.

The VA has planned its AI ethics framework around a December 2020 Executive Order on promoting the use of trustworthy AI in the Federal government.

“Trustworthy AI when it’s implemented is ethical. It also removes potential biases, protects privacy, and allows for increased adoption of artificial intelligence,” said Gil Alterovitz, director of the VA’s National Artificial Intelligence Institute (NAII).
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The NAII has partnered with the VA’s Cyber Innovation Program to develop a framework of trustworthiness specific to AI and users’ health information. According to Alterovitz, the agency released a request for information to gather feedback on the possible risks that they may face as they continue to utilize AI moving forward.
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guest · Aug 23, 2021

Cities worldwide band together to push for ethical AI
August 23, 2021
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252505672/Cities-worldwide-band-together-to-push-for-ethical-AI

From traffic control and waste management to biometric surveillance systems and predictive policing models, the potential uses of artificial intelligence (AI) in cities are incredibly diverse, and could impact every aspect of urban life.

In response to the increasing deployment of AI in cities – and the general lack of authority that municipal governments have to challenge central government decisions or legislate themselves – London, Barcelona and Amsterdam launched the Global Observatory on Urban AI in June 2021.
The initiative aims to monitor AI deployment trends and promote its ethical use, and is part of the wider Cities Coalition for Digital Rights (CC4DR), which was set up in November 2018 by Amsterdam, Barcelona and New York to promote and defend digital rights. It now has more than 50 cities participating worldwide.
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According to Michael Donaldson, Barcelona’s chief technology officer (CTO), the Observatory is designed to be a “space of collaboration and exchange of knowledge” where cities can share their experiences – both positive and negative – in developing and deploying AI systems.

“The first thing that we’re doing is identifying the principles of what should be considered ethical when it comes to AI,” said Ramírez, adding that the Observatory hopes to have a report finalised on this in September.
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guest · Aug 24, 2021

UCLA Releases Report to Help Governments Ethically Deploy AI
August 24, 2021
https://www.meritalk.com/articles/ucla-releases-report-to-help-governments-ethically-deploy-ai/

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity have released a new set of recommendations to help governments of all levels evaluate the potential risks and harms associated with new artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

The report, released earlier this month, is the result of a comparative analysis of AI risk and impact assessments from five regions around the world: Canada, New Zealand, Germany, the European Union, and San Francisco, Calif. The report compares how these different assessment models approach key questions related to the safety of AI systems, including what impacts they could have on human rights and the environment, and how the range of risks should be managed.

“These assessments may be used by both public and private entities hoping to develop and deploy trustworthy AI systems, and are broadly considered a promising tool for AI governance and accountability,” Au Yeung wrote.
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In a press release, the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity says the paper specifically focuses on ongoing efforts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop an AI risk management framework. Congress tasked NIST with developing a voluntary AI risk management framework that organizations can use to promote trustworthy AI development and use.
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Guidance for the Development of AI Risk and Impact Assessments

The paper, Guidance for the Development of AI Risk and Impact Assessments, by Louis Au Yeung, a recent Master of Public Policy graduate from the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, focuses on “AI risk and impact assessments,” formalized, structured assessments used to characterize risks arising from the use of AI systems, and to identify proportionate risk mitigation measures.

“Ensuring that AI systems are safe and trustworthy is critical to increasing people’s confidence and harnessing the potential benefits of these technologies…. Risk and impact assessments provide a structured approach for assessing the risks of specific AI systems, differentiating them based on their riskiness, a

For his research, Au Yeung, a graduate student researcher with CLTC’s Artificial Intelligence Security Initiative (AISI), conducted a comparative analysis of AI risk and impact assessments from five regions around the world: Canada, New Zealand, Germany, the European Union, and San Francisco, California.
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guest · Dec 6, 2021

UNESCO member states sign document for the healthy development of AI
November 26, 2021

Earlier this week, the 193 member states of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) signed a document that defines the values and principles needed to ensure the healthy development of artificial intelligence (AI), according to UN News. While the technology is already supporting governments and the private sector in useful ways, member states of UNESCO want to ensure that it’s not used for bad purposes.

Commenting on the document, UNESCO chief, Audrey Azoulay, said:

“The world needs rules for artificial intelligence to benefit humanity. The Recommendation on the ethics of AI is a major answer. It sets the first global normative framework while giving States the responsibility to apply it at their level. UNESCO will support its 193 Member States in its implementation and ask them to report regularly on their progress and practices.”
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UN News:193 countries adopt first-ever global agreement on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

All the Member states of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted on Thursday a historic agreement that defines the common values and principles needed to ensure the healthy development of AI.

“We see increased gender and ethnic bias, significant threats to privacy, dignity and agency, dangers of mass surveillance, and increased use of unreliable Articificial Intellegence technologies in law enforcement, to name a few. Until now, there were no universal standards to provide an answer to these issues”, UNESCO explained in a statement.
Considering this, the adopted text aims to guide the construction of the necessary legal infrastructure to ensure the ethical development of this technology.
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guest · Aug 19, 2022

NIST releases expanded AI Risk Management Framework draft
August 19, 2022

The National Institute of Standards and Technology released an expanded second draft of its Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework with more details on developing trustworthy and responsible AI systems, said a spokesperson Friday.

NIST consulted experts, held discussions and workshops, and solicited comments before clarifying AI Risk Management Framework core outcomes, adding an audience section tied to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development AI system life cycle, and explaining how AI and traditional software risks differ within the guidance.
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The latest iteration follows a first draft — in which NIST recognized for the first time that a socio-technical approach to building and deploying AI systems is needed — in March for voluntary use, and plans to officially publish AI RMF 1.0 in January 2023.

NIST’s second draft simplifies the risk section explaining how agencies and other organizations can establish or reconfigure their risk thresholds, as well as trustworthy AI characteristics and categories.
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Along with the second draft, NIST released a new playbook that recommends actions framework users can take to ensure trustworthiness in AI systems’ design, development, deployment and use.

“We include guidance for two of the four functions in the AI RMF and are working on the other two functions,” a NIST spokesperson told FedScoop. “Stakeholder feedback on the early draft will help us as we complete the draft of this online resource.”
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guest · Aug 24, 2022

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NIST releases expanded AI Risk Management Framework draft
August 19, 2022
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Can NIST move ‘trustworthy AI’ forward with new draft of AI risk management framework?
August 24, 2022

Is your AI trustworthy or not? As the adoption of AI solutions increases across the board, consumers and regulators alike expect greater transparency over how these systems work.

Today’s organizations not only need to be able to identify how AI systems process data and make decisions to ensure they are ethical and bias-free, but they also need to measure the level of risk posed by these solutions. The problem is that there is no universal standard for creating trustworthy or ethical AI.
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However, last week the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released an expanded draft for its AI risk management framework (RMF) which aims to “address risks in the design, development, use, and evaluation of AI products, services, and systems.”
The second draft builds on its initial March 2022 version of the RMF and a December 2021 concept paper. Comments on the draft are due by September 29.

The RMF defines trustworthy AI as being “valid and reliable, safe, fair and bias is managed, secure and resilient, accountable and transparent, explainable and interpretable, and privacy-enhanced.”
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The RMF’s limitations
While the risk management framework is a welcome addition to support the enterprise’s internal controls, there is a long way to go before the concept of risk in AI is universally understood.

“This AI risk framework is useful, but it’s only a scratch on the surface of truly managing the AI data project,” said Chuck Everette, director of cybersecurity advocacy at Deep Instinct. “The recommendations in here are that of a very basic framework that any experienced data scientist, engineers and architects would already be familiar with. It is a good baseline for those just getting into AI model building and data collection.”
In this sense, organizations that use the framework should have realistic expectations about what the framework can and cannot achieve. At its core, it is a tool to identify what AI systems are being deployed, how they work, and the level of risk they present (i.e., whether they’re trustworthy or not).
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guest · Jan 27, 2023

NIST launches voluntary risk management framework for AI
By John Hewitt Jones | FedScoop - January 26, 2023

The National Institutes of Standards and Technology has issued the first version of its Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework that federal agency leaders and lawmakers hope will govern use of the technology.
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The Department of Commerce agency Thursday released the initial document, which it emphasized will continue to evolve as the department receives further input from industry and the scientific research community.

Publication of the document comes as the use of AI technology receives increased public attention with the launch of new mainstream tools including Chat-GPT.
In the framework document, NIST sets out four key functions that it says are key to building responsible AI systems: govern, map, measure and manage.
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The document is a “rules of the road” that senior technical advisers at NIST hope will provide a starting point for government departments and private sector companies big and small in deciding how to regulate their use of the technology. Organizations can adopt the framework on a voluntary basis.

The final framework comes after NIST last year sought feedback on two draft versions of the document.
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