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2 Delphi 167 (2019)
AI Governance: Digital Responsibility as a Building Block: Towards an Index of Digital Responsibility

handle is hein.journals/delphi2 and id is 200 raw text is: Towards an index of Digital Responsibility | 167 Al Governance: Digital Responsibility as a Building Block Towards an Index of Digital Responsibility Eva Thelisson, Jean-Henry Morin and Johan Rochel* The rapid development ofAl-based technologies significantly impacts almost all human ac- tivities as they are tied to already existing underlying systems and services. In order to make sure that these technologies are at least transparent if not provably beneficial for human beings and society and represent a true progress, AI governance will play a key role. In this paper, we propose to reflect on the notion of 'digital responsibility'to accountfor the respon- sibility of economic actors. Our objective is to provide an outline of what digital responsi- bility is and to propose a Digital Responsibility Index to assess corporate behavior. We ar- gue that a Digital Responsibility Index can play a central role in restoring trust in a data- driven economy and create a virtuous circle, contributing to a sustainable growth. This per- spective is part ofAI governance because it provides a concrete way of quantifying the im- plementation ofAI principles in corporate practice. 1. Introduction Al technologies now underlie almost all systems and services used in transforming how we live, learn, work, engage, vote, socialise, travel, help, etc. Al tech- nologies suffer from a lack of transparency, which raises the question of how liability risks will be tak- en into consideration by policy-makers.1 In addition, companies leveraging the underlying data are build- ing empires concentrating power over people to a level never achieved before.2 This becomes all the DOI: 10.21552/delphi/2019/4/6 Eva Thelisson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Con- nexion Science Lab, Boston, USA, Co-Founder of the Al Trans- parency Institute. For correspondence: <evathelisson@proton- mail.com>. Jean-Henry Morin, Instituteof Information ServiceScience (ISS), Centre Universitaire dInformatique (CUI), Geneva School of Social Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. For correspondence: <jhmorin@unige.ch>. Johan Rochel, Faculty of Law, University of Z~rich; ethix - Lab for Innovation Ethics, Zurich, Switzerland. For correspondence: <johan.rochel@gmail.com>. 1 Iria Giuffrida, 'Liability for Al Decision-Making: Some Legal and Ethical Considerations' (2019) 88 Fordham L Rev 439 2 James E Bessen, 'The Policy Challenge of Artificial Intelligence' (2018) CPI Antitrust Chronicle, Boston Univ School of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper No 18-16 3 Roger McNamee, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastro- phe (Harper Collins 2019) more significant as a few actors dominating the mar ket hold the data of billions of people, potentially in- fluencing their lives and practices. A prominent ex- ample is Facebook, which in barely ten years rose from being an internal college dating site to the biggest global social network service ever built with almost one third of the world population being reg- istered and sharing their most intimate information.3 Corporate responsibility is a concept larger and older than that applied in the digital field. The UNC- TAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and De- velopment) has discussed for more than 25 years the Social Responsibility of Transnational Corporations with all stakeholders involved (Governments, Corpo- rations, Civil Society, etc.). This paper will focus on digital responsibility only. This is a very important concept in ever more digitalized societies. In both cases we have similar dimensions: politics, ethics, le- gal issues, human rights, finance, geopolitics, etc. Al plays an important role in the digitalization of our societies. This transition is an ongoing process we need to cope with and organise amongst differ ent stakeholders to achieve a balance preventing one stakeholder from dominating the others at their ex- pense. Broadly, we identify three major stakeholders: private companies (industry), public authorities (state) and individuals (society).7 Implementing Delphi 4|2019

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