Ethical AI development: Principles for responsible AI governance

By Sameer Dhanrajani, CEO, AIQRATE & 3AI

According to a 2024 report from the Centre for the Governance of AI at the University of Oxford, 82% of Americans & Europeans  believe that robots and AI should be carefully managed. Concerns cited ranged from how AI is used in surveillance and in spreading fake content online to cyber-attacks, infringements on data privacy, hiring bias, autonomous vehicles, and drones that don’t require a human controller. What happens when injustices are propagated not by individuals or organisations but by a collection of machines? Lately, there’s been increased attention on the downsides of AI it may produce in our society, from unequitable access to opportunities to the escalation of polarisation in our communities. Not surprisingly, there’s been a corresponding rise in discussion around how to lay principles for responsible AI governance.

AI has already shown itself very publicly to be capable ...