What is Responsible AI?
Responsible AI Is the practice of designing systems with careful consideration of their fairness, accountability, transparency, lawfulness, and their impact on people and on the world.
Depending on your business, to be effective at Responsible AI, you may need to draw on the knowledge an insights of software developers and IT experts, lawyers, privacy experts, risk managers, accountants, ethicists and the people who are affected by the system.
As the technology is forging ahead at a dizzying pace and organizations feel pressure to innovate fast, there are societal values that need to be upheld and pitfalls that need to be guarded against in developing and deploying AI.
Fairness - Ensuring AI systems do not result in unfair bias or discrimination against certain groups.
Transparency - Being clear about what goes into training an AI system, how it makes decisions, and what its limitations are, so that users of the system can have trust.
Privacy - Handling personal data carefully and implementing privacy protections.
Safety and security - Verifying systems do what they are supposed to do and don't cause unintended harm. Identifying and mitigating threats from bad actors.
Accountability - Having processes to determine who is responsible when issues occur with AI systems and to remedy problems.
Human control - Ensuring humans remain in control of critical decisions and AI augments rather than replaces human judgment.
Ethical purpose - Using AI judiciously for beneficial purposes and avoiding implementing systems likely to cause harm.
The goal of responsible AI is to develop AI that respects norms and guardrails to benefit society while minimizing downsides and unintended consequences. It is an emerging discipline requiring collaboration between policymakers, researchers, public and private sector organizations.
At Waltzer Consulting, we take seriously the idea that with great power comes great responsibility, and we aim to partner with organizations that want to do the right thing with the amazing new technological capabilities of AI.
