"Why embracing human rights will ensure AI works for all", 13 Apr 2018

...The recommendations, published in a white paper [by Global Future Council on Human Rights], focus on the business world’s responsibility developing and deploying machine learning, and provide a set of principles based on the UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights…

When AI systems are developed, they should take account of who will be affected by them…But such systems should take into account differences in specific populations, age groups or environments. Equally, diversity in teams developing these technologies is very important in producing technology that works for more people…

… [T]here are numerous historical and present biases in data…If these biases are not corrected, and algorithms are not specifically designed to counter them, there is a very high risk that an AI system will amplify existing discrimination…

…[T]hese algorithms are often a “black box”, meaning their inner workings are not known to the people using them, as they are proprietary pieces of software developed by someone else… We should always know when AI is aiding or making decisions and be able to have an explanation of why it was made…

…[W]e should not lose our right to effectively challenge a decision we believe to be unfair because decision-making in commercial or public functions is automated. We should have an adequate remedy when a wrong decision has been made, and there should be clear procedures for appealing them…