The open guidebook on legal, trustworthy, and ethical Artificial Intelligence

about¶

This guidebook offers a window onto the activity of the etami consortium. It covers actionable guidelines to develop legal, trustworthy, and ethical Artificial Intelligence. The focus is put on quality-centric lifecycle models for AI systems, legal compliance, and AI auditing practices.

etami – Ethical and Trustworthy Artificial and Machine Intelligence – is a non-profit organisation that works on making ethical AI principles actionable. etami understands that the best path towards trustworthy and ethical AI starts with quality-centric lifecycle models, processes involving all the stakeholders, and auditing practices. By developing systems with care while following a number of simple principles, it is straightforward to make such systems safe and trustworthy, and follow ethical and legal principles – even where these change. This handbook, of which you are only able to see a snapshot in time, lies down these principles. If you are researching, developing, or applying AI methodologies, this handbook is for you.

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overview the open guidebook¶

This guidebook, which is a continuing effort, is structured around four sections. The firt section, the most theoretical one, includes a glossary of terms and defines concepts that are useful to reason about accountability. The rest of the guidebook can be divided into trustworthiness by design practices, such as a redefined lifecycle models and documentation methods , AI auditing procedures, and legal toolboxes.