Executive Summary

While AI can bring positive changes, like Microsoft's AI for Earth, putting ethical principles into practice faces challenges.

This article looks at current efforts in responsible AI, especially in businesses, and identifies six key factors causing a gap between principles and actions
Conflicting incentives, the complexity of AI’s impacts, different fields not working together well, how responsibilities are divided in organizations, managing organizational knowledge about AI, and too many tools without clear choices.

Date

December 10, 2024

Relevant Stakeholders

Media and Civil Society

Themes

AI and Technology in Local Government

Methodological Areas

Philosophical analysis

Citation

Schiff, D., Rakova, B., Ayesh, A., Fanti, A., & Lennon, M. (2021). Explaining the Principles to Practices Gap in AI. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2021.3056286

Link to publication

https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2021.3056286