D. If accidents occur, the AI will need to be transparent and accountable to an accident investigator, so the internal process that led to the accident can be understood.

G. Following an accident, judges, juries, lawyers, and expert witnesses involved in the trial process require transparency and accountability to inform evidence and decision making.

Full transparency in an AI system should be facilitated by the presence of a device that can record information about said system in the form of an “ethical black box” that not only contains relevant data to ensure transparency and accountability of a system, but also includes clear data and information on the ethical considerations built into said system.

An absolute precondition is that the development of AI must be responsible, safe and useful, where machines maintain the legal status of tools, and legal persons retain control over, and responsibility for, these machines at all times.

An absolute precondition is that the development of AI must be responsible, safe and useful, where machines maintain the legal status of tools, and legal persons retain control over, and responsibility for, these machines at all times.

To ensure a just transition, as well as sustainable future developments, it is vital that corporate policies are put in place that ensure corporate accountability in relation to this displacement, such as retraining programmes and job change possibilities.

It is the responsibility of states and companies to find solutions that provide all workers, in all forms of work, the right to and access to both.

Ban the Attribution of responsibility to Robots

This is linked to the question of legal responsibility.

In line with Bryson et al 2011, UNI Global Union asserts that legal responsibility for a robot should be attributed to a person.

Robots are not responsible parties under the law.