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White House proposes AI “Bill of Rights”
Recently, the Biden administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy released a Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. The blueprint’s proposed framework identifies five principles for guiding the design, use, and deployment of automated systems to protect the public as the use of artificial intelligence grows. The principles center around topics related to stronger safety measures, such as (i) ensuring systems are safe and effective; (ii) implementing proactive protections against algorithmic discrimination; (iii) incorporating built-in privacy protections, including providing the public control over how data is used and ensuring that the data collection meets reasonable expectations and is necessary for the specific context in which it is being collected; (iv) providing notice and explanation as to how an automated system is being used, as well as the resulting outcomes; and (v) ensuring the public is able to opt out from automated systems in favor of a human alternative and has access to a person who can quickly help remedy problems. According to the announcement, the proposed framework’s principles should be incorporated into policies governing systems with “the potential to meaningfully impact” an individual or community’s rights or access to resources and services related to education, housing, credit, employment, health care, government benefits, and financial services, among others.