Six Steps to Responsible AI in the Federal Government | Brookings Institution

There is widespread agreement that responsible artificial intelligence requires principles such as fairness, transparency, privacy, human safety, and explainability. Nearly all ethicists and tech policy advocates stress these factors and push for algorithms that are fair, transparent, safe, and understandable.¹

But it is not always clear how to operationalize these broad principles or how to handle situations where there are conflicts between competing goals.² It is not easy to move from the abstract to the concrete in developing algorithms and sometimes a focus on one goal comes at the detriment of alternative objectives.³

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