BEST OF THE WEB

Amazon plans warning cards to regulate AI usage

In light of ongoing concerns that artificially intelligent systems can discriminate against different groups, Amazon plans to distribute warning cards for software sold by its cloud computing division.

The card is a documentation template that provides critical information on important factors such as fairness and bias, which examine how a system affects different user subpopulations such as gender and ethnicity. Explainability is a mechanism for understanding and evaluating an AI system’s outputs. Privacy and Security investigates how model data is used to understand privacy and legal issues, as well as to protect against theft and exposure.

Furthermore, robustness are mechanisms that ensure an AI system operates consistently. Governance evaluates the processes used to define, implement, and enforce responsible AI practices within an organization, whereas transparency provides information about an AI system to allow stakeholders to make informed decisions about how to use the system.

The AI Service cards also facilitate responsible AI by providing a single location to find information on the intended use cases, limitations, and design choices made by AWS when developing the model, as well as deployment and optimization best practices. This is part of AWS’ commitment to building AI services that are fair, free of bias, transparent, and secure.

The sources for this piece include an article in Reuters.

IT World Canada Staff
IT World Canada Staffhttp://www.itworldcanada.com/
The online resource for Canadian Information Technology professionals.

Would you recommend this article?

Share

Thanks for taking the time to let us know what you think of this article!
We'd love to hear your opinion about this or any other story you read in our publication.


Jim Love, Chief Content Officer, IT World Canada

Featured Download

ITW in your inbox

Our experienced team of journalists and bloggers bring you engaging in-depth interviews, videos and content targeted to IT professionals and line-of-business executives.

More Best of The Web