Principle 4 — transparency

Issue: How can we ensure that A IS are transparent?

Develop new standards* that describe measurable, testable levels of transparency, so that systems can be objectively assessed and levels of compliance determined.

For designers, such standards will provide a guide for self assessing transparency during development and suggest mechanisms for improving transparency.

For designers, such standards will provide a guide for self assessing transparency during development and suggest mechanisms for improving transparency.

(The mechanisms by which transparency is provided will vary significantly, for instance 1) for users of care or domestic robots, a why did you do that button which, when pressed, causes the robot to explain the action it just took, 2) for validation or certification agencies, the algorithms underlying the A IS and how they have been verified, and 3) for accident investigators, secure storage of sensor and internal state data, comparable to a flight data recorder or black box.)