The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines

@article{Jobin2019TheGL,
  title={The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines},
  author={Anna Jobin and M. Ienca and E. Vayena},
  journal={Nature Machine Intelligence},
  year={2019},
  pages={1-11}
}
In the past five years, private companies, research institutions and public sector organizations have issued principles and guidelines for ethical artificial intelligence (AI). However, despite an apparent agreement that AI should be ‘ethical’, there is debate about both what constitutes ‘ethical AI’ and which ethical requirements, technical standards and best practices are needed for its realization. To investigate whether a global agreement on these questions is emerging, we mapped and… Expand
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