MIT Tech Review | Melissa Heikkilä | Oct 4, 2022

President Joe Biden has today unveiled a new AI Bill of Rights, which outlines five protections Americans should have in the AI age.

• The AI Bill of Rights, the vision for which was first introduced a year ago by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), a US government department that advises the president on science and technology, is a blueprint for how to achieve those goals. It provides practical guidance to government agencies and a call to action for technology companies, researchers, and civil society to build these protections.
  • 1. It says that Americans should be protected from unsafe or ineffective systems
  • 2. Algorithms should not be discriminatory and systems should be used as designed in an equitable way
  • 3. Citizens should have agency over their data and should be protected from abusive data practices through built-in safeguards
  • 4. Citizens should also know whenever an automated system is being used on them and understand how it contributes to outcomes
  • 5. People should always be able to opt out of AI systems in favor of a human alternative and have access to remedies when there are problems

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Marc Rotenberg, who heads the Center for AI and Digital Policy:

This is clearly a starting point. That doesn’t end the discussion over how the US implements human-centric and trustworthy AI.  But it is a very good starting point to move the US to a place where it can carry forward on that commitment.

We’d like to see some clear prohibitions on AI deployments that have been most controversial, which include, for example, the use of facial recognition for mass surveillance.

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Matt Schruers, president of the tech lobby CCIA:

Says he appreciates the administration’s “direction that government agencies should lead by example in developing AI ethics principles, avoiding discrimination, and developing a risk management framework for government technologists.

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