Design for human control, accountability, and intended use

Humans should have ultimate control of our technology, and we strive to prevent unintended use of our products. Our user experience enforces accountability, responsible use, and transparency of consequences. We build protections into our products to detect and avoid unintended system behaviors. We achieve this through modern software engineering and rigorous testing on our entire systems including their constituent data and AI products, in isolation and in concert. Additionally, we rely on ongoing user research to help ensure that our products function as expected and can be appropriately disabled when necessary. Accountability is enforced by providing customers with insight into the provenance of data sources, methodologies, and design processes in easily understood and transparent language. Effective governance — of data, models, and software — is foundational to the ethical and accountable deployment of AI.
Principle: AI Ethical Principles, January 2023

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1. Accountability and Transparency

o ADP believes that human oversight is core to providing reliable ML results. We have implemented audit and risk assessments to test our models as the baseline of our oversight methodologies. We continue to actively monitor and improve our models and systems to ensure that changes in the underlying data or model conditions do not inappropriately affect the desired results. o ADP provides information as to how we handle personal data in the relevant privacy statement that is made available to our clients’ employees, consumers or job applicants.

Published by ADP in ADP: Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, 2018 (unconfirmed)

4. Data Governance

o Understanding how we use data, and the sources from which we obtain it, are key to our AI and ML principles. We maintain processes and systems to track and manage our data usage and retention from across ADP systems or processes. If we use external information in our models, such as government reports or industry terminologies, we understand the processes and impact of that information in our models. All data included in our ML models is monitored for changes that could alter the desired outcomes.

Published by ADP in ADP: Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, 2018 (unconfirmed)

· 1.1 Responsible Design and Deployment

We recognize our responsibility to integrate principles into the design of AI technologies, beyond compliance with existing laws. While the potential benefits to people and society are amazing, AI researchers, subject matter experts, and stakeholders should and do spend a great deal of time working to ensure the responsible design and deployment of AI systems. Highly autonomous AI systems must be designed consistent with international conventions that preserve human dignity, rights, and freedoms. As an industry, it is our responsibility to recognize potentials for use and misuse, the implications of such actions, and the responsibility and opportunity to take steps to avoid the reasonably predictable misuse of this technology by committing to ethics by design.

Published by Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) in AI Policy Principles, Oct 24, 2017

Uphold high standards of scientific and technological excellence

Rebellion is committed to scientific excellence as we advance the development, testing, and deployment of artificial intelligence and other technologies. We believe AI should be interpretable and explainable to its human users. Because AI models are evolving so quickly, we will always seek out best practices as they evolve in artificial intelligence and throughout the software and defense industries. We strive for scientific rigor such that all scientific investigations, research, and practices are conducted with the highest level of precision and accuracy. This includes strict adherence to protocols, accurate data collection and analysis, and careful interpretation of results. Our team communicates research findings and methodologies clearly and openly in a manner that allows for the replication of results by independent researchers. Black box systems are antithetical to these standards. We build our technology to be intuitive and explainable in simple terms. In addition, we ensure the safety and security of the research, development, and production environments.

Published by Rebelliondefense in AI Ethical Principles, January 2023

4. We strive for transparency and integrity in all that we do

Our systems are held to specific standards in accordance with their level of technical ability and intended usage. Their input, capabilities, intended purpose, and limitations will be communicated clearly to our customers, and we provide means for oversight and control by customers and users. They are, and will always remain, in control of the deployment of our products. We actively support industry collaboration and will conduct research to further system transparency. We operate with integrity through our code of business conduct, our internal AI Ethics Steering Committee, and our external AI Ethics Advisory Panel.

Published by SAP in SAP's Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence, Sep 18, 2018