AT&T Issues AI Principles; OECD Countries May Suggest Their Own Standards
AT&T's artificial intelligence "guiding principles" are human oversight; open source "communities whenever appropriate"; and "ethics, safety, and values" including "our privacy principles and security safeguards." The ISP/MVPD uses "varied, validated datasets and diverse human input," it said Wednesday. "We use…
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a transparent approach to algorithms that includes safeguards." The company monitors "outcomes to ensure accuracy and help minimize biases." When "outcomes are owned by people, no one should be able to claim, 'The machine did it,'" blogged Chief Privacy Officer Tom Moore. "No organization will be perfect, but that’s what humans must try to anticipate, catch and repair." Even as many organizations have advanced their own AI and privacy principles, some widely endorsed ones exist, noted Electronic Privacy Information Center President Marc Rotenberg. The "benchmark for AI policy" are the EPIC-established Public Voice coalition's universal guidelines for artificial intelligence, or UGAI, he said in an interview. Possibly later this month, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development may announce its 38 member countries endorsed OECD guidelines, "which reflect many of the principles contained in the UGAI," said Rotenberg, who has worked on the issue. The U.S. would be among the signers. The White House didn't comment. All OECD members and Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Costa Rica "are due to formally endorse a new set of AI Principles designed by the OECD, next Wednesday" at the group’s annual ministerial meeting, a spokesperson emailed. AT&T meanwhile actively participates "in discussions with industry organizations, such as Linux Foundation, IEEE and Future of Privacy Forum, on a variety of AI topics," a company spokesperson emailed. That includes "AI and ethics, responsible development and deployment of AI" and machine learning, he added.