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Towards ethical AI that strengthens human rights

These recommendations aim to ensure that ethical and human rights issues of AI are recognised and addressed. They are based on the work of the EU project SHERPA. They are based on the view of AI as a set of overlapping ecosystems. In order to steer these ecosystems, three main conditions should be fulfilled:

Concepts need to be clear and the ecosystems need to be clearly delineated
There must be a sustainable knowledge base of technical, but also social, ethical and legal aspects
Governance of AI ecosystems should set the framework and support individuals and organisations

These three groups of recommendations each contain several individual recommendations as outlined here.

Concepts: Delimitation of the ecosystem

The recommendations in this group serve the purpose of ensuring that concepts are clear and that the ecosystem that is the target of the recommendation or intervention is clearly delimited. The delimitation of relevant ecosystems goes beyond concepts and will need to cover aspects such as the geographical reach or jurisdiction of relevance.

Recommendation C-1: Use appropriate and clear definitions of AI and digital technology

Knowledge base

The members of the AI ecosystem require knowledge to establish and maintain their shared ecosystem. The recommendations in this section are meant to establish, strengthen and maintain the knowledge that is required to promote AI for human flourishing.

Recommendation K-1: Develop baseline model for AI Impact Assessments

Recommendation K-2: Promote Ethics by Design for researchers

Recommendation K-3: Create training and education pathways that include ethics and human rights in AI

Recommendation K-4: Include research findings on AI ethics in standardisation

Recommendation K-5: Undertake security analysis for machine learning systems

Ecosystem governance

Governance structures of AI ecosystems need to be open, adaptive and flexible to allow them to react to technical, political, legal. social and ethical developments. They need to provide incentives to ecosystems members to act appropriately and

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