AI Ethics Principles for Australia

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Artist: Kirill Maksimchuk

AI Ethics Principles for Australia

Together with the Australian Academy of Science, HMI team members wrote a submission responding to the Data61 discussion paper: “Artificial Intelligence: Australia’s Ethics Framework”. These were our key recommendations:

• AI should be recognised as a general purpose technology, and the AI Ethics framework should more systematically analyse the different potential applications of AI.

• Given that the purpose of the AI Ethics framework is to ensure that research into and adoption of AI technologies conforms with Australian laws and values, it should identify how existing laws apply to specific AI application domains.

• Where existing laws are inadequate, the AI Ethics framework should propose domain- specific laws and principles suited to these specific domains.

• The principles advanced for specific domains should be clear, consistent, and coherent.

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