Amazon exploiting tech to wring each final ounce of productiveness from its workforce, Clearview AI harvesting our facial options from social media and public surveillance footage, faculty proctoring software program invading our children’s rooms, Facebook’s entire “accused of contributing to genocide” factor — the identical machine studying/AI and automation applied sciences which have introduced us the wonders of the fashionable world have additionally wrought upon us the horrors of the fashionable world. And, by golly, the Biden Administration is not going to face for it. 

On Tuesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) launched its long-awaited Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (BoR). The doc will, “help guide the design, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and other automated systems so that they protect the rights of the American public,” per a White House press release.

As such, the BoR will advocate for 5 ideas: Safe and Effective Systems, Algorithmic Discrimination Protections, Data Privacy, Notice and Explanation, and Human Alternatives, Consideration, and Fallback. “Simply put, systems should work, they shouldn’t discriminate, they shouldn’t use data indiscriminately,” BoR co-writer Suresh Venkatasubramanian, wrote in a tweet thread Tuesday. “They should be visible and easy to understand, and they shouldn’t eliminate human interlocutors.”

“There were thousands of edits and comments that made the document strong, rich, and detailed,” Venkatasubramanian continued. “The AI Bill of Rights reflects, as befits the title, a consensus, broad, and deep American vision of how to govern the automated technologies that impact our lives.” 

“Automated technologies are driving remarkable innovations and shaping important decisions that impact people’s rights, opportunities, and access. The Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights is for everyone who interacts daily with these powerful technologies — and every person whose life has been altered by unaccountable algorithms,” stated Office of Science and Technology Policy Deputy Director for Science and Society Dr. Alondra Nelson. “The practices laid out in the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights aren’t just aspirational; they are achievable and urgently necessary to build technologies and a society that works for all of us.”

The Administration has spent greater than a yr growing the BoR to its present state, together with intensive public outreach via panel discussions, public listening classes, and conferences with everybody from employees and activists to CEOs and entrepreneurs. In addition to the invoice itself, the OSTP has additionally launched a companion work, From Principles to Practice, which particulars concrete steps for each authorities and NGO entities, private and non-private firms alike, take to make sure they’re working throughout the scope and spirit of the doc. 

“Effectively implementing these processes require the cooperation of and collaboration among industry, civil society, researchers, policymakers, technologists, and the public,” the BoR reads. Lol, no, after all there are no precise enforcement mechanisms.