Online Assessment for Ethical AI Released by the EU Commission

On 17 July an online assessment was released called the Assessment List for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (ALTAI), which is a practical tool that helps business and organisations to self-assess the trustworthiness of their AI systems under development.

The tool supports the actionability the key requirements outlined by the  Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI), presented by  the High-Level Expert Group on AI (AI HLEG) presented to the European Commission, in April 2019. The Ethics Guidelines introduced the concept of Trustworthy AI, 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