Europe To Pilot AI Ethics Rules, Calls For Participants (techcrunch.com)

The European Commission has launched a pilot project intended to test draft ethical rules for developing and applying AI technologies to ensure they can be implemented in practice. It's also aiming to garner feedback and encourage international consensus building for what it dubs "human-centric AI" -- targeting among other talking shops the forthcoming G7 and G20 meetings for increasing discussion on the topic. From a report: The Commission's High Level Group on AI -- a body comprised of 52 experts from across industry, academia and civic society announced last summer -- published their draft ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI in December. A revised version of the document was submitted to the Commission in March. It's boiled the expert consultancy down to a set of seven "key requirements" for trustworthy AI, i.e. in addition to machine learning technologies needing to respect existing laws and regulations -- namely:

Human agency and oversight: "AI systems should enable equitable societies by supporting human agency and fundamental rights, and not decrease, limit or misguide human autonomy."
Robustness and safety: "Trustworthy AI requires algorithms to be secure, reliable and robust enough to deal with errors or inconsistencies during all life cycle phases of AI systems."
Privacy and data governance: "Citizens should have full control over their own data, while data concerning them will not be used to harm or discriminate against them."
Transparency: "The traceability of AI systems should be ensured."
Diversity, non-discrimination and fairness: "AI systems should consider the whole range of human abilities, skills and requirements, and ensure accessibility."
Societal and environmental well-being: "AI systems should be used to enhance positive social change and enhance sustainability and ecological responsibility."
Accountability: "Mechanisms should be put in place to ensure responsibility and accountability for AI systems and their outcomes."

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Translation

[DNS-and-BIND]

"Don't let impartial algorithms with no preconceptions come to conclusions we don't like. Instead, massage them until they agree with what we've already decided coincides with our pre-existing political biases."

awww, isn't that cute

[sdinfoserv]

"Citizens should have full control over their own data" - now show me one single US entity (Corporation or Government for that matter) that will abide by such a concept.
If we can't have anything close to this before AI, what dream world do you live in to apply this TO AI?

Fundamental rights in the EU

[AHuxley]

A Spanish AI will detect any mention of Catalonia.
A German AI will report on all interest in German art, culture and German history.
That French AI will be interested in political memes, cartoons and protests.

Robustness: EU police spyware to keep working on tracking users.
Data governance: Censorship.
Transparency: EU nations can see all your data use.
Diversity: Lots of illegal immigrants.
Societal and environmental well-being: Reporting of EU users to their nations police when they use the internet in the wrong political way.
Accountability: The resulting police interviews after an AI reports a user to the gov.
Trustworthy: No using an EU funded AI project to support any nation's attempt to exit the EU.
Consultancy: More tax payers money.