by CheckmateHumanity | Feb 8, 2021 | Ethical AI
Open Loop – Facebook’s policy prototyping sandbox. Open Loop is a collaborative initiative supported by Facebook to contribute practical insights into policy debates by prototyping and testing approaches to regulation before they are enacted. Putting aside one’s...
by CheckmateHumanity | Nov 28, 2020 | Ethical AI
What ‘harm’ will AI do? The Issue In the last blog, we touched upon the concept of ‘high risk AI’. The term begs the question: high risk of what? The obvious answer is risk of ‘harm’. But what is harm? Who and how will harm be assessed? Over what period should harm be...
by CheckmateHumanity | Nov 8, 2020 | Ethical AI
What is ‘High Risk’ AI? The Issue The term ‘high risk AI’ is seemingly the threshold at which legislation should step in to restrict the development and deployment of AI. At least, this is the current debate being had in Europe at the moment. But what is high risk AI...
by CheckmateHumanity | Oct 27, 2020 | Ethical AI
Diversity from the bottom up – beyond technical debiasing Recently, on a tech forum site, a contributor made the following simple, but insightful statement AI are the products of algorithms, data and developer. There is only one source of bias in this statement...
by CheckmateHumanity | Oct 14, 2020 | Ethical AI
A Path from Ethical Principles to Law The Issue The purpose of ethics and the law are often distinct yet the EU is on a path to turn ethical principles into legal rules. Is this the right approach? Recently the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee released an...
by CheckmateHumanity | Sep 30, 2020 | Ethical AI
Is there a trade-off between privacy & discrimination in algorithmic decision making? The Issue Algorithms need data to make correlations and accurate predictions. When sensitive data is omitted from the workings of an AI system due to genuine privacy...
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