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AI Governance

AI Governance trends then and now

  • D. Schiff, J. Biddle, J. Borenstein, and K. Laas, ‘What’s Next for AI Ethics, Policy, and Governance? A Global Overview’, 2020, doi: 10.1145/3375627.3375804.

  • Dixon, R.B.L. A principled governance for emerging AI regimes: lessons from China, the European Union, and the United States. AI Ethics 3, 793–810 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-022-00205-0

Can rethinking the Private Sector help?

  • D. Marino and Aj. Moon, ‘The potential for co-operatives to mitigate AI ethics catastrophes: perspectives from media analysis’, in 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (ETHICS), May 2023, pp. 1–10. doi: 10.1109/ETHICS57328.2023.10155081.|

  • Wiesmüller, S., Fischer, N., Mehnert, W., Ammon, S. (2023). Responsible AI Adoption Through Private-Sector Governance. In: Schmidpeter, R., Altenburger, R. (eds) Responsible Artificial Intelligence. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09245-9_5

Should we re-think Open Source/Access?

  • Toby Shevlane and Allan Dafoe. 2020. The Offense-Defense Balance of Scientific Knowledge: Does Publishing AI Research Reduce Misuse? In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 173–179. https://doi.org/10.1145/3375627.3375815

  • C. Lin and A. Moon, "Can Open Source Licenses Help Regulate Lethal Autonomous Weapons?," in IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 25-27, Sept. 2021, doi: 10.1109/MTS.2021.3101832. https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2021.3101832

Can we fix things as they go wrong?

  • Tartaro, A. When things go wrong: the recall of AI systems as a last resort for ethical and lawful AI. AI Ethics (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-023-00327-z

  • Violet Turri and Rachel Dzombak. 2023. Why We Need to Know More: Exploring the State of AI Incident Documentation Practices. In Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 576–583. https://doi.org/10.1145/3600211.3604700

Governance through processes

  • Salameh, A., Bass, J.M. An architecture governance approach for Agile development by tailoring the Spotify model. AI & Soc 37, 761–780 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01240-x

  • Macrae, C. From Blade Runners to Tin Kickers: what the governance of artificial intelligence safety needs to learn from air crash investigators. AI & Soc (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01246-5

The U.S. and AI governance

  • Baobao Zhang and Allan Dafoe. 2020. U.S. Public Opinion on the Governance of Artificial Intelligence. In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 187–193. https://doi.org/10.1145/3375627.3375827

  • Christie Lawrence, Isaac Cui, and Daniel Ho. 2023. The Bureaucratic Challenge to AI Governance: An Empirical Assessment of Implementation at U.S. Federal Agencies. In Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 606–652. https://doi.org/10.1145/3600211.3604701

What's inside the EU AI Act?

  • EU AI Law -- the actual document is hefty. I suggest to review the summary slides provided on the same website and then skim the article for specific texts. Supplement this with the article below.https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/the-act/

  • Wörsdörfer, M. The E.U.’s artificial intelligence act: an ordoliberal assessment. AI Ethics (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-023-00337-x

How should we handle AI in our cities/streets?

  • Tom Williams and Kerstin Sophie Haring. 2023. No Justice, No Robots: From the Dispositions of Policing to an Abolitionist Robotics. In Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 566–575. https://doi.org/10.1145/3600211.3604663

  • Ziosi, M., Hewitt, B., Juneja, P. et al. Smart cities: reviewing the debate about their ethical implications. AI & Soc (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-022-01558-0

What if there were tech-supported forms of governing AI?

  • Peter Henderson, Eric Mitchell, Christopher Manning, Dan Jurafsky, and Chelsea Finn. 2023. Self-Destructing Models: Increasing the Costs of Harmful Dual Uses of Foundation Models. In Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 287–296. https://doi.org/10.1145/3600211.3604690

  • Alan Chan, Herbie Bradley, and Nitarshan Rajkumar. 2023. Reclaiming the Digital Commons: A Public Data Trust for Training Data. In Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 855–868. https://doi.org/10.1145/3600211.3604658

Understanding responsibility and accountability

  • Slota, S.C., Fleischmann, K.R., Greenberg, S. et al. Many hands make many fingers to point: challenges in creating accountable AI. AI & Soc 38, 1287–1299 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01302-0

  • Vallor, Edinburgh Declaration on Responsibility for Responsible AI, https://medium.com/@svallor_10030/edinburgh-declaration-on-responsibility-for-responsible-ai-1a98ed2e328b

Can better professional norms and codes of ethics help?

  • U. Gasser, and C. Schmitt, ‘The Role of Professional Norms in the Governance of Artificial Intelligence’, The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI, no. December, pp. 140–159, 2020, doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190067397.013.8. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3378267

  • Priyanka Nanayakkara, Jessica Hullman, and Nicholas Diakopoulos. 2021. Unpacking the Expressed Consequences of AI Research in Broader Impact Statements. In Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 795–806. https://doi.org/10.1145/3461702.3462608

Could human-rights be a better approach to AI governance?

  • Yeung, Karen, Andrew Howes, and Ganna Pogrebna, 'AI Governance by Human Rights–Centered Design, Deliberation, and Oversight: An End to Ethics Washing', in Markus D. Dubber, Frank Pasquale, and Sunit Das (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI (2020; online edn, Oxford Academic, 9 July 2020), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190067397.013.5

  • The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "A/HRC/51/17: The right to privacy in the digital age", (08. 2022)https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/ahrc5117-right-privacy-digital-age|