• Posted 20-Jul-2020

Artificial intelligence: The Commission welcomes the opportunities offered by the final Assessment List for Trustworthy AI (ALTAI)

The European Commission welcomed the Assessment List for Trustworthy AI (ALTAI), a check list for business and organisations to self-assess the trustworthiness of their artificial intelligence (AI) systems under development. This will further strengthen the benefits that AI yields to the economy and society as a whole.

The concept of Trustworthy AI, introduced by the High-Level Expert Group on AI (AI HLEG) through the Ethics Guidelines on Trustworthy AI, is based on seven key requirements:

1. human agency and oversight,
2. technical robustness and safety,
3. privacy and data governance,
4. transparency,
5. diversity, non-discrimination and fairness,
6. environmental and societal well-being and,
7. accountability.

ALTAI is the first instrument that translates AI principles into an accessible and dynamic checklist that developers and deployers of AI can use. ALTAI will help to ensure that users benefit from AI without being exposed to unnecessary risks. The Assessment List has been revised following a piloting process that involved more than 350 stakeholders. ALTAI is available in a document version and as a prototype of a web-based tool.

Source: Digital Single Market News (https://bit.ly/39erjA4)