Towards a responsible and ethical Artificial Intelligence 3rd Artificial Intelligence for Information Accessibility (AI4IA) Conference September 2022

1. Towards a responsible and ethical Artificial Intelligence
Angel Melguizo
Regional advisor for Latin America, Artificial Intelligence & Ethics
UNESCO Social and Human Sciences
3rd Artificial Intelligence for Information Accessibility (AI4IA) 2022 Conference

2. Artificial Intelligence is a reality today, beyond the technology sector
Source: Stanford University

3. Investments are notable in multiple areas of daily life…
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Source: Stanford University

4. … and they continue to be led by the United States and China
Fuente: Inteligencia Artificial. Informe del Índice 2021. Universidad de Standford. Inteligencia Artificial Centrada en el Ser Humano (IAH).
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5. Going deeper into the challenges towards an efficient and ethical AI: some key questions
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• How representative are the databases which are being used?
• How are the models being trained, in particular to differentiate between
correlation and causation?
• How are conscious and unconscious biases being avoided? Or, in fact, are
they amplified?
• How inclusive are the programming teams?
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More and more public and private decisions are taken
by artificial intelligence, and the outcomes are not free
from biases or badly-defined frameworks.
Privacy, surveillance, and serious human rights
concerns

7. Recommendation on the Ethics of AI at the Social and Human
Sciences Commission, 41st General Conference of UNESCO
16 November 2021

8. Recommendation on the Ethics of AI adopted by acclamation
by 193 Member States of UNESCO, 23 November 2021

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Principles
1. Proportionality and do no harm
2. Safety and security
3. Fairness and non-discrimination
4. Sustainability
5. Right to privacy, and data protection
6. Human oversight and determination
7. Transparency and explainability
8. Responsibility and accountability
9. Awareness and literacy
10. Multi-stakeholder and adaptive
governance and collaboration
Values
1. Respect, protection and
promotion of human rights
and fundamental freedoms
and human dignity
2. Environment and ecosystem
flourishing
3. Ensuring diversity and
inclusiveness
4. Living in peaceful, just and
interconnected societies
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The Recommendation goes into details of actions to ensure accountability, responsibility,
transparency and necessary regulations to ensure the rule of law.
Action-oriented cross-sectoral policy chapters of the Recommendation covers:
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THE FRAMEWORK
Data policy Gender Development
& international
cooperation
Environment &
ecosystems
Health
and social
well-being
Communication &
information
Education
& research
Economy &
Labour
Culture
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Observatory of
Ethical AI
Global Forum on
Ethics of AI
Women4EthicalAI
AI Experts
without borders
Analytical works
From adoption to implementation: a rich set of tools…
Ethical Impact
Assessment (EIA)
Readiness
Assessment
Methodology
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… with some good practices from Latin America as a pilot region
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• The CAF-UNESCO Regional Council for Latin America and the Caribbean for the
implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence will
be launched in Chile, March 2023.
• Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador and Mexico are the pioneer implementers of the
UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. UNESCO will provide
technical assistance to align their AI Strategies to the recommendation (e.g. Colombia)
• On going pilot work with companies from technology, telecommunications (Telefonica),
banking, insurance, labor market intermediation and e-commerce
• Research papers focusing on AI and gender, people with disabilities and indigenous people
• MOOC IA so that no one is left behind, starting October 2022

13. • The global economy is facing new economic and social shocks, just emerging from the
impact of the pandemic
• This should not blur the commitment to a digital transformation...
• … but the digital transformation must be sustainable in its political, social and
environmental dimensions
• UNESCO is collaborating with the digital ecosystem – national and local governments
and companies, advised by academia and civil society - to implement the
recommendation towards an ethical AI
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More on the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI:
https://en.unesco.org/artificial-intelligence/ethics
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