The White House Publishes Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
CheesyMoo writes:
The White House has published a Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-bill-of-rights/
Among the great challenges posed to democracy today is the use of technology, data, and automated systems in ways that threaten the rights of the American public. Too often, these tools are used to limit our opportunities and prevent our access to critical resources or services. These problems are well documented. In America and around the world, systems supposed to help with patient care have proven unsafe, ineffective, or biased. Algorithms used in hiring and credit decisions have been found to reflect and reproduce existing unwanted inequities or embed new harmful bias and discrimination. Unchecked social media data collection has been used to threaten people's opportunities, undermine their privacy, or pervasively track their activity-often without their knowledge or consent.
[...] [T]he White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has identified five principles that should guide the design, use, and deployment of automated systems to protect the American public in the age of artificial intelligence. The Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights is a guide for a society that protects all people from these threats-and uses technologies in ways that reinforce our highest values [...]
The five principles are listed as Safe and Effective Systems, Algorithmic Discrimination Protections, Data Privacy, Notice and Explanation, and Human Alternatives, Consideration and Fallback. The document contains more details on each of these areas.
The wording suggests that these are not going to be obligatory but are for guidance.
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