From mental models to computational thinking — Complexity pervades today’s society — whether we look at the economy, businesses that operate within the economy, individuals who play different roles in society, how our physical, social, political, and industrial complex interact with each other, we cannot ignore the complexity of it. There is no single or simple explanation…

Decisions, Documents, and RACI Matrix — Responsible use of AI should start with a detailed assessment of the key risks posed by AI [1], followed by a good understanding of the principles that should be followed [2], and then the governance of AI from a top-down and end-to-end perspective [3]. We have discussed these in our…

‘It will change everything’: DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures declared the well-known journal Nature on 30th November 2020. Shortly after, we also heard Business Insider report that “DeepMind faces criticism from scientists skeptical of ‘breakthrough’” and One professor at the University of California branded DeepMind’s announcement…

Results from the Global Responsible AI Survey — Over the past couple of years AI risks and ethical considerations of AI are coming to the forefront. …

Modeling for uncertain times: Approaches, behaviors, and outcomes The spread of the pandemic or COVID-19 — first in China and South Korea and then in Europe and the United States — was swift and caught most governments, companies, and citizens off-guard. This global health crisis developed into an economic crisis…

Results from the Global Responsible AI Survey — There is little doubt that COVID-19 has been the single most influential driver of our lives and livelihoods in 2020. The impact of the pandemic however has been very mixed for certain groups of society, certain industry sectors, certain companies and for certain technologies. Three key themes emerge around PwC’s…

Three Lines of Defense for AI Governance — Responsible AI is a broad topic covering multiple dimensions of the socio-technical system called Artificial Intelligence. We refer to AI as a socio-technical system here as it captures the interaction between humans and how we interact with AI. In the first part of this series we looked at AI risks…

First step towards operationalizing AI ethics — In the first part of this series, we looked at AI risks from five dimensions. We talked about the dark side of AI, without really going into how we would manage and mitigate these risks. …

Get started on your journey towards Responsible AI Thirty years from now, will we look back at 2020 as the year when AI discriminated against minority groups, disinformation propagated by special interest groups and aided by AI-based personalization caused political instability, deep fakes and other AI-supported security infringements basically rendered…