Overview of AI Fairness and Ethics Guidelines

Title: Overview of AI Fairness and Ethics Guidelines

Authors: Victoria Kontrus

Publication: VICESSE Working Paper

Published: 11/2021

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Abstract:

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have pervaded almost every aspect of our daily lives and the effects of this development are tangible. To address the ethical risks such ground-breaking technologies typically entail, a rapidly growing number of fairness and ethics guidelines have been published in recent years. This paper provides an exemplary overview of the diverse landscape of AI ethics guidelines and comparative analyses in secondary literature. It examines this recent surge of guidelines, characterizes and categorizes various sets of guidelines and discusses popular principles contained therein with an emphasis on fairness and explainability. It also points to a series of challenges that arise from the principled approach to AI ethics, such as virtue signaling and especially practical implementation.