Design and development of a framework and supporting toolkit for Diversity and Inclusion in AI system

Project Member(s): Zowghi, D., Rizoiu, M.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Data61) (Data61 CSIRO)
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Data61) (Data61 CSIRO)

Start year: 2022

Summary: Project description: Diversity and Inclusion in AI systems refer to the establishment of effective and diverse human involvement in the AI systems development processes, decision making and the adoption of resulting AI-enabled products and services. It also refers to the presence of accurate and consistent training datasets about all the relevant stakeholders. Lack of diversity in the AI systems development teams and non-adherence to principles and practices of diversity and inclusiveness in the overall deployment, adoption and governance of these systems have shown to cause digital redlining, data discrimination and algorithmic oppression, leading to AI systems to be tagged as untrustworthy and unsuccessful as a system. Therefore, diversity and inclusion are pivotal in the design and development of AI systems. This project aims to design and develop a framework and supporting toolkit to manage diversity and inclusion in AI systems.

FOR Codes: Social ethics, Machine learning

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