UNESCO produced the first-ever global standard on AI ethics – the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence – in November 2021. This framework was adopted by all 193 Member States.
The protection of human rights and dignity is the cornerstone of the Recommendation, based on the advancement of fundamental principles such as transparency and fairness, always remembering the importance of human oversight of AI systems.
The Stanford's Encyclopedia of Philosophy delves more deeply into the ethical issues that arise from AI systems as objects or tools made and used by humans. General explanations of ethical issues – e.g., privacy, manipulation, opacity, bias, human-robot interaction, employment, effects of autonomy – as well as ethics for machine systems are provided.
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In this paper, the reader will find a straightforward overview of the value and necessity of utilizing AI ethics for businesses, recommendations for creating a sustainable culture of AI ethics, the skills required to do this, and how to hire and staff for such an effort. We have also included an AI Ethics Readiness Framework to help you determine how prepared you are to introduce and grow AI ethics in your business.
More than a dozen industry experts contributed to the first paper in the Ethically Aligned Design for Business series created by The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (A/IS).
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Guide provides an introduction to this evolving field for faculty, fellows, residents, postdocs, students, and staff. Due to the rapid advancement of this emerging technology, information in the Guide may become outdated at times. This Guide supplements but does not supersede information provided by UT Southwestern or University of Texas policies and guidelines.