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Principles for Responsible AI - Omitted Elements

This is a supporting document for 'Principles for Responsible AI'

Version of 3 March 2019

Roger Clarke **

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This document is at http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/GAIF-Omissions.html

The Principles for Responsible AI, in Table 4 and Appendix 1 of the main paper, were developed by consolidating into themes the ideas apparent in a suite of 26 documents published prior to the end of 2018.

The following elements within those sources have not been reflected in the Principles, variously because no means was apparent as to how they could be operationalised and applied to practice, and because they addressed a topic not within-scope of the Principles.

The cross-references below are to the 'Ethical Principles and IT' sources (Clarke 2018b - E) and 'Principles for AI' sources (Clarke 2018c - P).

Omitted Elements

• Environmental Sustainability (E5.5, E6.7, P4.4, P11.3)
• "A user must not use a robot to commit an illegal act" (E6.12)
• "[Do not] deliberately damage or destroy a robot" (E6.15)
• "[Do not,] through gross negligence ... allow a robot to come to harm" (E6.16)
• "It is a lesser but nonetheless serious offence to treat a robot in a way which may be construed as deliberately and inordinately abusive" (E6.17)
• "[Respect a robot's] right to exist without fear of injury or death" (E6.21)
• "[Respect a robot's] right to live an existence free from systematic abuse (E6.22)
• "Fund research in particular with regards to the ethical and legal effects of artificial intelligence" (P4.10, P6.2)
• Asimov's Meta-Law (P1.1)
• Asimov's Procreation Law (P1.7)
• Ensure reversability of actions (P3.10)
• Respect and improve social processes, and avoid subverting them (P6.17)
• Public Empowerment - The public's ability to understand AI-enabled services, and how they work, is key to ensuring trust in the technology - 'Algorithmic Literacy' must be a basic skill ... (P8.3)
• Equip AI systems with an 'Ethical Black Box' that contains clear data and information on the ethical considerations built into said system (P11.2)
• Secure a Just Transition as workers are displaced (P11.7)
• Establish governance mechanisms [i.e. long-term impact assessment and management] (P11.8)

Author Affiliations

Roger Clarke is Principal of Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, Canberra. He is also a Visiting Professor in Cyberspace Law & Policy at the University of N.S.W., and a Visiting Professor in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University.

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