When it comes to managing artificial intelligence, there is no shortage of principles and concepts aiming to support fair and responsible use. But organizations and their leaders are often left scratching their heads when facing hard questions about how to responsibly manage and deploy AI systems today.
How to Build Accountability into Your AI
Questions to ask and processes to follow.
August 11, 2021
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Summary.
It’s not easy to know how to manage and deploy AI systems responsibly today. But the U.S. Government Accountability Office has recently developed the federal government’s first framework to help assure accountability and responsible use of AI systems. It defines the basic conditions for accountability throughout the entire AI life cycle — from design and development to deployment and monitoring — and lays out specific questions for leaders and organizations to ask, and the audit procedures to use, when assessing AI systems.