2022

A Human Rights-Based Approach to Responsible AI

Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar, Mitchell, Margaret, Gebru, Timnit et al.

Understand

Research on fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics of AI-based interventions in society has gained much-needed momentum in recent years.

However it lacks an explicit alignment with a set of normative values and principles that guide this research and interventions.
Rather, an implicit consensus is often assumed to hold for the values we impart into our models - something that is at odds with the pluralistic world we live in.
In this paper, we put forth the doctrine of universal human rights as a set of globally salient and cross-culturally recognized set of values that can serve as a grounding framework for explicit value alignment in responsible AI - and discuss its efficacy as a framework for civil society partnership and participation.

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