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Accelerating the societal benefits of artificial intelligence and machine learning while ensuring equity, privacy, transparency, accountability and social impact.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a key driver of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Its effect can be seen in homes, businesses and even public spaces. In its embodied form of robots, it will soon be driving cars, stocking warehouses and caring for the young and elderly. AI holds the promise of solving some of society’s most pressing issues, but also presents challenges such as inscrutable “black box” algorithms, unethical use of data and potential job displacement.
As rapid advances in machine learning (ML) increase the scope and scale of AI’s deployment across all aspects of daily life, and as the technology can learn and change on its own, multistakeholder collaboration is required to optimize accountability, transparency, privacy and impartiality to create trust.
Our Platform brings together key stakeholders from the public and private sectors to co-design and test policy frameworks that accelerate the benefits and mitigate the risks of AI and ML.
Project areas include standards for protecting children, creating an AI regulator for the 21st century, and addressing the unique challenges of facial recognition technology.
How can we create actionable guidelines to educate, empower and protect children and youth in the age of artificial intelligence? The challenge Children and young people today grow up in ...
How should technologists, academia, design thinkers and civil society come together to accelerate the development and adoption of human-centred AI that promotes autonomy, safety, well-bei...
The ChallengeThe development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies can bring about many benefits – from transforming businesses and improving labour productivity to enhanci...
How can we create actionable guidelines to address human rights concerns arising from the use of facial recognition technology? The challenge The adoption of facial recognition has increa...
Guidelines for the responsible and effective procurement of artificial intelligence by governments to better meet the needs of citizens and enhance public servicesThe challenge Artificial...
The Challenge The pervasive use of technology is triggering a spirited debate on how new technologies should be managed and governed. As government struggles to keep up with the unprecede...
How should technology providers, the medical community and healthcare regulators come together to ensure that chatbots provide beneficial outcomes for healthcare? What approaches and tool...
A toolkit for HR professionals to promote positive and ethical human-centred use of AI, for organizations, workers and society.The challenge There has been an explosion in recent years of...
A global multi stakeholder initiative to create an ethical framework enabling the responsible design and adoption of quantum computing The challengeQuantum computing, though at its early ...
Challenge:Many institutions have focused their attention and resources mostly on data protection and privacy. Not only has this approach failed to harness the full value of data, but it h...
The MissionTo harness the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) by accelerating the adoption of trusted, transparent and inclusive AI systems globally. The ChallengeAI ...
World Economic Forum: Creation of an overarching ethics framework for the design, development and deployment of artificial intelligence in India, along with self-assessment guidelines for...
This paper is the first in a series of case studies that investigate how companies have begun to incorporate ethical thinking into the development of technology. It focuses on Microsoft C...
Ethics by Design: An organizational approach to the responsible use of technology integrates key insights from psychology and behavioural economics with findings from market research and ...
When a new technology is introduced in healthcare, especially one based on AI, it invites meticulous scrutiny. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of chatbots in healthcare...
The World Economic Forum’s Frameworks for Reimagining Regulation at the Age of AI seek to address the need for upgrading our existing regulatory environment to ensure the trustworthy desi...
This project provides a guidebook designed to unlock public-sector adoption of AI through government procurement and a set of complementary tools to demonstrate the emerging global consen...
The World Economic Forum’s Framework for the Responsible use of facial recognition technology seeks to address the need for a set of concrete guidelines to ensure the trustworthy and safe...
Over the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as the software engine that drives the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a technological force affecting all disciplines, econom...
There are many potential benefits to the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, including the reduction of economic inefficiencies and increase in high-skilled jobs. Th...
AI’s technological advances are expected to disrupt numerous legal frameworks, including various aspects of US patent law.
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