Partnership on AI
In plain wordsA forum, set up by big technology companies in 2016 and later joined by universities, charities and news organizations, that drafts voluntary guidelines for building and using AI responsibly.
A San Francisco nonprofit, launched in 2016 by leading technology companies, in which corporate members work alongside universities, advocacy groups and news organizations to draft voluntary practices for responsible AIresponsible AI, n.: An umbrella name for the practices organizations use to keep their AI systems fair, safe, private and accountable, from the first design meeting to everyday use.. Its work includes the AI Incident Database (begun under its auspices in 2020 and later independent), the ABOUT ML documentation project, a framework of responsible practices for synthetic mediasynthetic media, n.: Images, video, audio or text created or substantially altered by AI rather than recorded or written directly by people, whether for art, entertainment, business or deception. (2023) adopted by companies and newsrooms, guidance for the safe deployment of foundation modelsfoundation model, n.: A very large AI model, built once at great cost from vast amounts of text, images or code gathered mostly from the internet, that many products then reuse as their starting point, from chatbots to coding tools. (2023), and research on AI's effects on workers and on publication norms for high-risk research. Critics have questioned how much influence non-industry partners have and whether voluntary guidance constrains member companies; several civil-society members, including the digital-rights group Access Now, left in 2020.
Origin
Announced in September 2016 by Amazon, DeepMind, Facebook, Google, IBM and Microsoft; Apple joined in January 2017, followed by academic and civil-society members, and it operates as an independent nonprofit.
Related
- responsible AIresponsible AI, n.: An umbrella name for the practices organizations use to keep their AI systems fair, safe, private and accountable, from the first design meeting to everyday use.
- AI incidentAI incident, n.: A real-world case in which an AI system, through a flaw, a breakdown or the way someone used it, ends up hurting people, property or rights, as in an injury, a wrongful arrest or a privacy breach.
- synthetic mediasynthetic media, n.: Images, video, audio or text created or substantially altered by AI rather than recorded or written directly by people, whether for art, entertainment, business or deception.
- AI ethicsAI ethics, n.: The study of what is right and wrong in how AI is built and used: who it may harm, who is responsible when it fails, and which values it should respect.
- Frontier Model ForumFrontier Model Forum, prop. n.: An industry group set up in 2023 by leading AI companies to share safety research and best practices for the most advanced AI models.
Mentioned in
AI Incident DatabaseAI Incident Database, prop. n.: A free public online collection of reports about real cases in which AI systems caused or nearly caused harm, kept so that builders and regulators can learn from past failures.