AI Ethics Guidelines Global Inventory

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Philips

Five guiding principles for responsible use of AI in healthcare and healthy living

Netherlands | 2020 | private sector
Recommendation

The Open Data Institute

PDF: Data Ethics Canvas

United Kingdom | 2019 | civil society
Recommendation

National Institution for Transforming India (Niti Aayog)

PDF: Discussion Paper: National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence

India | 2018 | government
Recommendation

Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale (AGID)

L’intelligenzia artificiale al servizio del cittadino (Artificial Intelligence at the service of the citizen)

Italy | 2018 | government
Recommendation

Advisory Board on Artificial Intelligence and Human Society

PDF: Report on Artificial Intelligence and Human Society (Unofficial translation)

Japan | 2017 | government
Recommendation

Institute for Information and Communications Policy (IICP), The Conference toward AI Network Society

PDF: Draft AI R&D Guidelines for International Discussions

Japan | 2017 | government
Recommendation

Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier

PDF: Artificial Intelligence: opportunities, risks and recommendations for the financial sector

Luxembourg | 2018 | government
Recommendation

Bundesministerium des Innern, für Bau und Heimat/ Datenethikkommission der Bundesregierung

PDF: Gutachten der Datenethikkommission der Bundesregierung

Germany | 2019 | government
Recommendation

Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS

PDF: Trustworthy Use of Artifical Intelligence

Germany | 2020 | academia
Recommendation

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

PDF: MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Task Force Working Group on Social Implications and Responsibilities of Computing Final Report

United States | 2019 | academia
Recommendation

Policy Action Network

AI & Data Topical Guide Series

South Africa | 2020 | civil society
Recommendation

Vodafone Group

Vodafone AI Framework

United Kingdom | 2019 | private sector
Voluntary commitment

World Economic Forum

A Framework for Responsible Limits on Facial Recognition Use Case

United States | 2020 | civil society
Recommendation

Stats New Zealand and Office of the Privacy Commissioner

PDF: Principles for the safe and effective use of data and analytics

New Zealand | 2018 | government
Recommendation

Pontifical Academy for Life

Rome Call – AI Ethics

Italy | 2020 | religious institution
Voluntary commitment

United Nations University Institute

PDF: A Typological Framework for Data Marginalization

China | 2019 | academia
Recommendation

The Humanitarian Data Science and Ethics Group

PDF: A Framework for the Ethical use of advanced Data Science Methodes in the Humanitarian Sector

European Union | 2020 | academia
Recommendation

Council of Europe

Artifical Intelligence and Data Protection

European Union | 2018 | government
Recommendation

DGB

Künstliche Intelligenz und die Arbeit von Morgen

Germany | 2019 | civil society
Recommendation

Ver.di

PDF: Künstliche Intelligenz – Gemeinwohl als Maßstabm Gute Arbeit als Prinzip

Germany | 2019 | civil society
Recommendation

Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)

PDF: Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics

International | 2017 | private sector
Recommendation

UNESCO

Preliminary study on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

France | 2019 | civil society
Recommendation

European Parliament

Report with recommendations to the Commission on Civil Law Rules on Robotics

European Union | 2017 | government
Recommendation

Oxford Munich Code of Conduct

Code of Conduct

International | 2019 | academia
Voluntary commitment

University of Oxford - Future of Humanity Institute

PDF: AI Governance: A research agenda

United Kingdom | 2017 | academia
Recommendation

Machine Intelligence Research Institute

PDF: The Ethics of Artifical Intelligence

United States | academia
Recommendation

Deep Mind

Saftey and Ethics

United States | private sector
Voluntary commitment

Future of Privacy Forum

PDF: Unfairness by algorithm: Distilling the Harms of automated decision making

United States | 2017 | civil society
Recommendation

Mission Villani

PDF: For a meaningful Artificial Intelligence. Towards a French and European strategy

France | 2018 | government
Recommendation

University of Oxford a.o.

PDF: The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevntion and Mitigation

International | 2018 | academia
Recommendation

Privacy International & Article 19

PDF: Privacy and Freedom of Expression In the Age of Artificial Intelligence

United Kingdom | 2018 | civil society
Recommendation

The Institute for Ethical and Machine Learning

The Responsible Machine Learning Principles

United Kingdom | civil society
Recommendation

Association for Computing Machinery - Future of Computing Machinery

It’s Time to Do Something: Mitigating the Negative Impacts of Computing Through a Change to the Peer Review Process

United States | 2019 | industry association
Recommendation

Republic of Užupis

PDF: Užupis Principles for Trustworthy AI Design

Lithuania | 2019 | civil society
Recommendation
Additional link

G20

PDF: Principles for responsible stewardship of trustworthy AI

International | 2019 | intergovernmental organisation
Voluntary commitment

Working group "Vernetzte Anwendungen und Plattformen für die digitale Gesellschaft"

PDF: Charta of digital networking

Germany | 2014 | private sector
Voluntary commitment
Additional link

Telia Company

Telia Company Guiding Principles on trusted AI ethics

Sweden | private sector
Voluntary commitment

American College of Radiology; European Society of Radiology; Radiology Society of North America; Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine; European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics; Canadian Association of Radiologists; American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Radiology: Summary of the Joint European and North American Multisociety Statement

International | 2019 | professional association
Recommendation

IEEE

PDF: Ethically Aligned Design 2

International | 2019 | professional association
Recommendation

Webfoundation

PDF: Artificial Intelligence: open questions about gender inclusion

Switzerland | 2018 | civil society
Recommendation

Leaders of the G7

PDF: Charlevoix Common Vision for the Future of Artificial Intelligence

International | 2018 | government
Voluntary commitment

UX Studio Team

AI UX: 7 Principles of Designing Good AI Products

Hungary | 2018 | private sector
Recommendation

Internet Society

Artifical Intelligence and Machine Learning Policy Paper

United States | 2017 | civil society
Recommendation

The Greens (Green Working Group Robots)

PDF: Position on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

European Union | 2016 | other
Recommendation

Information Commissioner's Office

PDF: Big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data protection

United Kingdom | 2017 | government
Recommendation

Korean Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP)

Mid- to Long-Term Master Plan in Preparation for the Intelligent Information Society Managing the Fourth Industrial Revolution

South Korea | 2016 | government
Voluntary commitment

Datatilsynet The Norwegian Data Protection Authority

PDF: Artificial intelligence and privacy

Norway | 2018 | government
Recommendation

The Rathenau Instituut, Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI), ICT Platform Netherlands (IPN)

PDF: Dutch Artificial Intelligence Manifesto

Netherlands | 2017 | government
Recommendation

Work in the age of artificial intelligence. Four perspectives on the economy, employment, skills and ethics

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment / Finland

Finland | 2018 | government
Recommendation

French Data Protection Authority (CNIL)

PDF: How can humans keep the upper hand? Report on the ethical matters raised by AI algorithms

France | 2017 | government
Recommendation

French Strategy for Artifical Intelligence

For a meaningful Artificial Intelligence. Towards a French and European strategy

France | 2018 | government
Recommendation

French National Ethical Consultative Committee for Life Sciences and Health (CCNE

PDF: Digital Technology and Healthcare. Which Ethical Issues for which Regulations?

France | 2014 | government
Recommendation

reputable AI

The Priniciples

International | nodate | private sector
Binding agreement

The White House

PDF: Guidance for Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Applications

United States | 2020 | government
Binding agreement

Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

PDF: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

United Kingdom | 2019 | academia
Recommendation

Digital Catapult, Machine Intelligence Garage Ethics Committee

Ethics Framework -Responsible AI

United Kingdom | 2020 | private sector
Recommendation

W20

PDF: Artificial Intelligence: open questions about gender inclusion

International | 2018 | civil society
Recommendation

National Science and Technology Council; Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Subcommittee

PDF: The National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan

United States | 2019 | government
Recommendation

Executive Office of the President; National Science and Technology Council; Committee on Technology

PDF: Preparing for the future of Artificial Intelligence

United States | 2016 | government
Recommendation

Science, Law and Society (SLS) Initiative

Principles for the Governance of AI

United States | 2017 | civil society
Recommendation

Intel Corporation

PDF: Intel’s AI Privacy Policy White Paper. Protecting individuals’ privacy and data in the artificial intelligence world

United States | 2018 | private sector
Recommendation

Data & Society

PDF: Governing Artificial Intelligence. Upholding Human Rights & Dignity

United States | 2018 | civil society
Recommendation

American Medical Association (AMA)

Policy Recommendations on Augmented Intelligence in Health Care H-480.940

United States | 2018 | professional association
Recommendation

Future Advocacy

PDF: Ethical, social, and political challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Health

United Kingdom | 2018 | civil society
Recommendation

The Royal Society

PDF: Machine learning: the power and promise of computers that learn by example

United Kingdom | 2017 | academia
Recommendation

Accenture UK

Responsible AI and robotics. An ethical framework

United Kingdom | 2018 | private sector
Recommendation

PriceWaterhouseCoopers UK

PDF: A practical guide to Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI)

United Kingdom | 2019 | private sector
Recommendation

Intel Corporation

PDF: Artificial Intelligence. The Public Policy Opportunity

United States | 2017 | private sector
Recommendation

Australian Government/ Department of industry, Innovation and Science

PDF: Artificial Intelligence Australia’s Ethics Framework A Discussion Paper

Australia | 2019 | government
Recommendation

Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien

Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism

Austria | 2019 | academia
Voluntary commitment

Aptiv, Audi, BMW, Daimler and other automotive companies

PDF: Safety First for Automated Driving – Proposed technical standards for the development of Automated Driving

International | 2019 | private sector
Voluntary commitment

Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services

PDF: Ethical Codex for Data-Based Value Creation: For Public Consultation

Switzerland | 2019 | industry association
Recommendation

World Economic Forum

PDF: White Paper: How to Prevent Discriminatory Outcomes in Machine Learning

International | 2018 | civil society
Recommendation

ITechLaw

Responsible AI: Global Policy Framework

United States | 2019 | professional association
Recommendation

Ethikbeirat HR Tech (Ethics council HR Tech)

PDF: Richtlinien für den verantwortungsvollen Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz und weiteren digitalen Technologien in der Personalarbeit (Guidelines for the responsible use of artificial intelligence and other digital technologies in human resources); Consultation document

Germany | 2019 | private sector
Voluntary commitment

The Internet Society

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Policy Paper

United States | 2017 | civil society
Recommendation

OP Financial Group

OP Financial Group’s ethical guidelines for artificial intelligence

Finland | private sector
Voluntary commitment

Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines

IIIM’s Ethics Policy

Iceland | civil society
Voluntary commitment

Department of Health and Social Care

Code of conduct for data-driven health and care technology

United Kingdom | 2019 | government
Recommendation

Unity

Unity’s six guiding AI principles

United States | 2018 | private sector
Voluntary commitment

Tieto

PDF: Tieto’s AI ethics guidelines

Finland | 2018 | private sector
Voluntary commitment
Additional link

The Information Accountability Foundation

PDF: Unified Ethical Frame for Big Data Analysis (draft)

United States | 2015 | civil society
Recommendation

Google

People & AI Partnership Guidebook

United States | private sector
Recommendation

Sony

PDF: Sony Group AI Ethics Guidelines

Japan | 2019 | private sector
Voluntary commitment

Government of Canada

Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Government of Canada (whitepaper)

Canada | 2019 | government
Recommendation

OECD

Recommendation of the Council on Artificial Intelligence

International | 2019 | international organisation
Recommendation

Google

Responsible AI Practice

United States | private sector
Recommendation

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Civil Rights Principles for the Era of Big Data

United States | 2014 | civil society
Recommendation

Amnesty International/Access Now

The Toronto Declaration

United Kingdom | 2018 | civil society
Recommendation

Ekspertgruppen om Design: malenehald.dk DATAETIK (Danish Expert Group on Data Ethics)

PDF: Data for the Benefit of the People: Recommendations from the Danish Expert Group on Data Ethics

Denmark | 2018 | government
Recommendation

The Good Technology Collective

The Good Technology Standard (GTS:2019-Draft-1)

International | 2018 | civil society
Recommendation

Verivox

Verivox/Pro7 Selbstverpflichtung (Commitment)

Germany | 2019 | private sector
Voluntary commitment
Additional link

Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V. (Federal Association of Consumer Protection Centres)

PDF: Algorithmenbasierte Entscheidungsprozesse (Algorithmic decision-making processes)

Germany | 2017 | civil society
Recommendation

Utrecht University

Data Ethics Decision Aid (DEDA)

Netherlands | 2017 | academia
Recommendation

Université de Montréal

Montreal Declaration for Responsible AI

Canada | 2018 | academia
Voluntary commitment

UNI Global Union

PDF: Top 10 Principles for Ethical Artificial Intelligence

International | 2017 | civil society
Recommendation

Unesco

Unesco Global Code of Ethics

International | intergovernmental organisation
Recommendation

UK House of Lords

UK House of Lords Artificial Intelligence Committee’s report, AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?

United Kingdom | 2018 | government
Recommendation

Government of Canada

Responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI)

Canada | 2019 | government
Voluntary commitment

Bejing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

Bejing AI Principles

China | 2019 | government
Recommendation

Engineering and Physical Research Council

Principles of Robotics

United Kingdom | 2010 | government
Recommendation

AI Now Institut

PDF: AI Now Report 2018

United States | 2018 | academia
Recommendation

Women leading in AI

Principles for Responsible AI

International | 2019 | civil society
Recommendation

Chinese AI Alliance

Joint Pledge on Artificial Intelligence Industry Self-Discipline (Draft for Comment)

China | 2019 | other
Voluntary commitment
Additional link

Chinese Government

Governance Principles for a New Generation of Artificial Intelligence: Develop Responsible Artificial Intelligence

China | 2019 | government
Recommendation
Additional link

Monetary Authority of Singapore

PDF: Principlesto Promote Fairness, Ethics, Accountability and Transparency (FEAT) in the Use of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics in Singapore’sFinancial Sector

Singapore | 2018 | government
Recommendation

New York Times

Seeking Ground Rules for A.I.

United States | 2019 | private sector
Recommendation

Kakao Corp

Kakao Algorithm Ethics

South Korea | private sector
Voluntary commitment

Sage

PDF: The Ethics of Code: Developing AI for Business with Five Core Principles

United States | 2017 | private sector
Voluntary commitment

IA Latam

Declaración de Ética para desarrollo y uso de la Inteligencia Artificial/ Declaration of Ethics for the Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence

International | 2019 | private sector
Voluntary commitment

The Alan Turing Institute

PDF: Understanding artificial intelligence ethics and safety

United Kingdom | 2019 | academia
Recommendation

University of Notre Dame

PDF: A Code of Ethics for the Human Robot Interaction

United States | academia
Recommendation

European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies

PDF: Statement on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and ‚Autonomous‘ Systems

European Union | 2018 | government
Recommendation

UNESCO

Report of COMEST on Robotics Ethics

International | 2010 | international organisation
Recommendation

European Commision For the Efficiency of Justice

European ethical Charter on the use of Artificial Intelligence in judicial systems and their environment

International | 2018 | government
Recommendation

IEEE

Ethics in Action – Set the Global Standards

International | professional association
Recommendation

UK Government

A guide to using Artificial Intelligence in the public sector

United Kingdom | 2019 | government
Recommendation

Dubai

PDF: Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Principles, and toolkit for implementation

United Arab Emirates | 2019 | government
Recommendation
Additional link

Ethkikkommission BuMi Verkehr und digitale infrastruktur

PDF: Automatisiertes und Vernetztes Fahren / Automated and connected automated driving

Germany | 2017 | government
Recommendation

European Commission

Code of Practice on Disinformation

European Union | 2018 | government
Recommendation

FAT/ML

Principles for Accountable Algorithms and a Social Impact Statement for Algorithms

International | civil society
Recommendation

Future of Life Institute

Asilomar AI Principles

United States | 2017 | civil society
Voluntary commitment

Gesellschaft für Informatik (German Society of Informatics)

Ethische Leitlinien (Ethical Guidelines)

Germany | 2018 | professional association
Voluntary commitment

Google

Objectives for AI Applications

United States | 2018 | private sector
Voluntary commitment
Additional link

Google

Advanced Technology External Advisory Council for Google (ATEAC)

United States | 2019 | private sector
Binding agreement
Additional link

Government of Canada

Directive on Automated Decision-Making

Canada | 2019 | government
Binding agreement

Handelsblatt Research Institute

PDF: Datenschutz und Big Data / Data protection and Big Data

Germany | other
Recommendation

High Level Expert Group on AI (European Commission)

Draft Guidelines for Trustworthy AI

European Union | 2019 | government
Recommendation

Deutsche Telekom

Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence

Germany | 2018 | private sector
Voluntary commitment

DataforGood

Serment d’Hippocrate pour Data Scientist (Hippocratic Oath for Data Scientists)

France | civil society
Voluntary commitment

Data Ethics

Data Ethics Principles

Denmark | 2017 | civil society
Recommendation

ADEL

ADEL

France | 2018 | private sector
Binding agreement

Association for Computing Machinery

PDF: Statement on Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability

United States | 2017 | industry association
Binding agreement
Additional link
Additional link

Atomium - EISMD (AI4Poeple)

PDF: AI4People’s Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society: Opportunities, Risks, Principles, and Recommendations

European Union | 2018 | civil society
Recommendation

Bertelsmann Stiftung / iRights.Lab

Algo.Rules

Germany | 2019 | civil society
Recommendation
Additional link

Bitkom

Empfehlungen für den verantwortlichen Einsatz von KI und automatisierten Entscheidungen (Recommendations for the responsible use of AI and automated decision making)

Germany | 2018 | industry association
Recommendation

Bitkom

PDF: Leitlinien für Big Data Einsatz (Guidelines for the use of Big Data)

Germany | 2015 | industry association
Recommendation

Bundesverband KI

KIBV Gütesiegel (KIBV Quality seal)

Germany | 2019 | industry association
Voluntary commitment

Center for Democracy & technology (CDT)

PDF: Digital Decisions

United States | civil society
Recommendation
Additional link

CIGI Gentre for International Governance Innovation

CIGI Paper No. 178: Toward a G20 Framework for Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace

Canada | 2018 | civil society
Recommendation

CIGREF

PDF: Digital Ethics

France | 2018 | industry association
Recommendation

Accenture

PDF: Universal Principles of Data Ethics

United States | 2016 | private sector
Recommendation

Hochschule der Medien

10 ethische Leitlinien für die Digitalisierung von Unternehmen (10 ethical guidelines for the digitalisation of companies)

Germany | 2017 | academia
Recommendation

Microsoft

Facial Recognition Principles

United States | 2018 | private sector
Voluntary commitment

Mozilla Foundation

Effective Ad Archives

United States | 2019 | civil society
Recommendation

National Research Council Canada

Advisory Statement on Human Ethics in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Research (2017)

Canada | 2019 | government
Binding agreement

Open AI

Open AI Charter

United States | 2018 | civil society
Voluntary commitment

Partnership On AI (Apple, Amazon, Google, MS, etc)

Tenets Partnership on AI

International | private sector
Voluntary commitment

Personal Data Commission Singapore

PDF: A Proposed Model Artificial Intelligence Governance Framework

Singapore | 2019 | government
Recommendation
Additional link

Pervade at University of Maryland

Pervasive Data Ethics

United States | academia
Voluntary commitment

SAP

SAP’s guiding principles for Artificial Intelligence

Germany | 2018 | private sector
Voluntary commitment
Additional link

Telefonica

Principos / Principles

Spain | 2018 | private sector
Binding agreement
Additional link

The Critical Engineering Working Group

THE CRITICAL ENGINEERING MANIFESTO

Germany | 2019 | civil society
Voluntary commitment

Microsoft

PDF: The Future Computed – Artificial intelligence and its role in society

United States | 2019 | private sector
Recommendation
Additional link

Microsoft

PDF: Responsible bots: 10 guidelines for developers of conversational AI

United States | 2018 | private sector
Voluntary commitment

Microsoft

Our Approach to AI

United States | private sector
Voluntary commitment

IBM

PDF: Everyday Ethics for Artificial Intelligence

United States | private sector
Recommendation
Additional link

IBM

Trusted AI

United States | private sector
Recommendation

IBM

IBM’s Principles for Trust and Transparency

United States | 2018 | private sector
Voluntary commitment
Additional link

IEEE

Ethically Aligned Design

United States | 2019 | professional association
Recommendation

Information Technolgy Industry Council

PDF: AI policies and principles

United States | 2017 | industry association
Voluntary commitment

Institute for Business Ethics

PDF: Business Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

United Kingdom | 2018 | other
Recommendation

International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners

PDF: DECLARATION ON ETHICS AND DATA PROTECTION IN ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE

International | 2018 | professional association
Voluntary commitment

Japanese Society for AI

PDF: The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Ethical Guidelines

Japan | 2017 | academia
Voluntary commitment

No organisation

Holberton Turing Oath

International | No Date | civil society
Voluntary commitment

Konferenz der unabhängigen Datenschutzaufsichtsbehörden des Bundes und der Länder (Conference of the independent data protection supervisory authorites in Germany)

PDF: Hambacher Erklärung zur Künstlichen Intelligenz – Sieben datenschutzrechtliche Anforderungen (Hambach Declaration on Artificial Intelligence – seven requirements for data protection)

Germany | 2019 | other
Voluntary commitment

The Public Voice

Universal Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence

International | 2018 | civil society
Recommendation

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