{"id":563,"date":"2020-05-03T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/?p=563"},"modified":"2020-05-03T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T18:18:00","slug":"policy-and-ai-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/main\/2020\/05\/03\/policy-and-ai-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy and AI Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Alan Turing Institute Public Policy Programme<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the complexities of public policy making, the new\nworld of AI and data science requires careful consideration of ethics and\nsafety in addressing complex and far-reaching challenges in the public domain. Data\nand AI systems lead to opportunities that can produce both good and bad\noutcomes. Ethical and safe systems require intentional processes and designs\nfor organizations responsible for providing public services and creating public\npolicies. An increasing amount of research focuses on developing comprehensive\nguidelines and techniques for industry and government groups to make sure they\nconsider the range of issues in AI ethics and safety in their work. An\nexcellent example is the Public Policy Programme at The Alan Turing Institute\nunder the direction of Dr. David Leslie [1]. Their work complements and supplements\nthe Data Ethics Framework [2], which is a practical tool for use in any project\ninitiation phase. Data Ethics and AI Ethics regularly overlap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Public Policy Programme describes AI Ethics as \u201ca set of\nvalues, principles, and techniques that employ widely accepted standards of\nright and wrong to guide moral conduct in the development and use of AI\ntechnologies. These values, principles, and techniques are intended both to\nmotivate morally acceptable practices and to prescribe the basic duties and\nobligations necessary to produce ethical, fair, and safe AI applications. The\nfield of AI ethics has largely emerged as a response to the range of individual\nand societal harms that the misuse, abuse, poor design, or negative unintended\nconsequences of AI systems may cause.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They cite the following as some of the most consequential potential harms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n