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Policy advice and best practices on bias and fairness in AI

Policy advice and best practices on bias and fairness in AI
Policy advice and best practices on bias and fairness in AI
The literature addressing bias and fairness in AI models (fair-AI) is growing at a fast pace, making it difficult for novel researchers and practitioners to have a bird’s-eye view picture of the field. In particular, many policy initiatives, standards, and best practices in fair-AI have been proposed for setting principles, procedures, and knowledge bases to guide and operationalize the management of bias and fairness. The first objective of this paper is to concisely survey the state-of-the-art of fair-AI methods and resources, and the main policies on bias in AI, with the aim of providing such a bird’s-eye guidance for both researchers and practitioners. The second objective of the paper is to contribute to the policy advice and best practices state-of-the-art by leveraging from the results of the NoBIAS research project. We present and discuss a few relevant topics organized around the NoBIAS architecture, which is made up of a Legal Layer, focusing on the European Union context, and a Bias Management Layer, focusing on understanding, mitigating, and accounting for bias.
Artificial intelligence, Best practices, Bias, Fairness, Policy Advice, Artificial Intelligence, Policy advice
Alvarez, Jose M.
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Alvarez, Jose M., Colmenarejo, Alejandra Bringas, Elobaid, Alaa, Fabbrizzi, Simone, Fahimi, Miriam, Ferrara, Antonio, Ghodsi, Siamak, Mougan, Carlos, Papageorgiou, Ioanna, Reyero, Paula, Russo, Mayra, Scott, Kristen M., State, Laura, Zhao, Xuan and Ruggieri, Salvatore (2024) Policy advice and best practices on bias and fairness in AI. Ethics and Information Technology, 26 (31), [31]. (doi:10.1007/s10676-024-09746-w).

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The literature addressing bias and fairness in AI models (fair-AI) is growing at a fast pace, making it difficult for novel researchers and practitioners to have a bird’s-eye view picture of the field. In particular, many policy initiatives, standards, and best practices in fair-AI have been proposed for setting principles, procedures, and knowledge bases to guide and operationalize the management of bias and fairness. The first objective of this paper is to concisely survey the state-of-the-art of fair-AI methods and resources, and the main policies on bias in AI, with the aim of providing such a bird’s-eye guidance for both researchers and practitioners. The second objective of the paper is to contribute to the policy advice and best practices state-of-the-art by leveraging from the results of the NoBIAS research project. We present and discuss a few relevant topics organized around the NoBIAS architecture, which is made up of a Legal Layer, focusing on the European Union context, and a Bias Management Layer, focusing on understanding, mitigating, and accounting for bias.

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Accepted/In Press date: 16 January 2024
Published date: 29 April 2024
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.
Keywords: Artificial intelligence, Best practices, Bias, Fairness, Policy Advice, Artificial Intelligence, Policy advice

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Local EPrints ID: 489853
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/489853
PURE UUID: 144b741b-ae59-4f1e-b8fc-61ae29a02aef
ORCID for Alejandra Bringas Colmenarejo: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7968-9853

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Date deposited: 03 May 2024 16:43
Last modified: 21 Nov 2024 17:41

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Author: Jose M. Alvarez
Author: Alejandra Bringas Colmenarejo ORCID iD
Author: Alaa Elobaid
Author: Simone Fabbrizzi
Author: Miriam Fahimi
Author: Antonio Ferrara
Author: Siamak Ghodsi
Author: Carlos Mougan
Author: Ioanna Papageorgiou
Author: Paula Reyero
Author: Mayra Russo
Author: Kristen M. Scott
Author: Laura State
Author: Xuan Zhao
Author: Salvatore Ruggieri

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