Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a field that utilizes computing and often, data and statistics, intensively together to solve problems or make predictions. AI has been evolving with literally unbelievable speed over the past few years, and this has led to an increase in social, cultural, industrial, scientific, and governmental concerns about the ethical development and use of AI systems worldwide. The ASA has issued a statement on ethical statistical practice and AI (ASA, 2024), which echoes similar statements from other groups. Here we discuss the support for ethical statistical practice and ethical AI that has been established in long-standing human rights law and ethical practice standards for computing and statistics. There are multiple sources of support for ethical statistical practice and ethical AI deriving from these source documents, which are critical for strengthening the operationalization of the "Statement on Ethical AI for Statistics Practitioners". These resources are explicated for interested readers to utilize to guide their development and use of AI in, and through, their statistical practice.
翻译:人工智能(Artificial Intelligence,AI)是一个密集结合计算、数据与统计学以解决问题或进行预测的领域。过去几年中,AI 以几乎难以置信的速度持续演进,这引发了全球范围内对社会、文化、工业、科学及政府层面关于 AI 系统伦理开发与使用的日益关注。美国统计协会(ASA)已发布关于伦理统计实践与 AI 的声明(ASA, 2024),该声明与其他组织的类似声明相互呼应。本文探讨了在长期存在的人权法律以及计算与统计的伦理实践标准中,对伦理统计实践与伦理 AI 所确立的支持依据。源自这些基础文献的多重支持资源,对于强化《统计从业者伦理 AI 声明》的可操作性至关重要。本文为感兴趣的读者阐释了这些资源,以指导他们在统计实践中及通过统计实践来开发和使用 AI。