February 6, 2022 Report Open Access

Leslie, David; Burr, Christopher; Aitken, Mhairi; Katell, Michael; Briggs, Morgan; Rincon, Cami

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{
  "publisher": "Zenodo", 
  "DOI": "10.5281/zenodo.5981676", 
  "author": [
    {
      "family": "Leslie, David"
    }, 
    {
      "family": "Burr, Christopher"
    }, 
    {
      "family": "Aitken, Mhairi"
    }, 
    {
      "family": "Katell, Michael"
    }, 
    {
      "family": "Briggs, Morgan"
    }, 
    {
      "family": "Rincon, Cami"
    }
  ], 
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2022, 
        2, 
        6
      ]
    ]
  }, 
  "abstract": "<p>Following on from the publication of its&nbsp;<em>Feasibility Study&nbsp;</em>in December 2020, the Council of Europe&rsquo;s Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (and its subgroups) initiated efforts to formulate and draft its&nbsp;<em>Possible elements of a legal framework on artificial intelligence, based on the Council of Europe&rsquo;s standards on human rights, democracy, and the rule of law</em>. This document was ultimately adopted by the CAHAI plenary in December 2021. To support this effort, The Alan Turing Institute undertook a programme of research that explored the governance processes and practical tools needed to operationalise the integration of human right due diligence with the assurance of trustworthy AI innovation practices.</p>\n\n<p>The resulting output, <em>Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law Assurance Framework for AI Systems: A proposal,</em>&nbsp;was completed and submitted to the Council of Europe in September 2021. It presents an end-to-end approach to the assurance of AI project lifecycles that integrates context-based risk analysis and appropriate stakeholder engagement with comprehensive impact assessment, and transparent risk management, impact mitigation, and innovation assurance practices. Taken together, these interlocking processes constitute a&nbsp;Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law Assurance Framework&nbsp;(HUDERAF). The HUDERAF combines the procedural requirements for principles-based human rights due diligence with the governance mechanisms needed to set up technical and socio-technical guardrails for responsible and trustworthy AI innovation practices. Its purpose is to provide an accessible and user-friendly set of mechanisms for facilitating compliance with a binding legal framework on artificial intelligence, based on the Council of Europe&rsquo;s standards on human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, and to ensure that AI innovation projects are carried out with appropriate levels of public accountability, transparency, and democratic governance.</p>", 
  "title": "Human rights, democracy, and the rule of law assurance framework for AI systems: A proposal", 
  "type": "article", 
  "id": "5981676"
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