Organizations that develop and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) systems need to take measures to reduce the associated risks. In this paper, we examine how AI companies could design an AI ethics board in a way that reduces risks from AI. We identify five high-level design choices: (1) What responsibilities should the board have? (2) What should its legal structure be? (3) Who should sit on the board? (4) How should it make decisions and should its decisions be binding? (5) What resources does it need? We break down each of these questions into more specific sub-questions, list options, and discuss how different design choices affect the board's ability to reduce risks from AI. Several failures have shown that designing an AI ethics board can be challenging. This paper provides a toolbox that can help AI companies to overcome these challenges.

翻译：开发和部署人工智能（AI）系统的组织需要采取措施以降低相关风险。本文考察了AI公司如何设计AI伦理委员会，从而降低AI带来的风险。我们确定了五个高层次的设计选择：(1) 委员会应承担哪些职责？(2) 其法律结构应如何？(3) 委员会成员应包含哪些人？(4) 应如何做出决策，且其决策是否具有约束力？(5) 需要哪些资源？我们将这些问题分解为更具体的子问题，列出选项，并讨论不同设计选择如何影响委员会降低AI风险的能力。多个失败案例表明，设计AI伦理委员会可能充满挑战。本文提供了一个工具箱，可帮助AI公司克服这些挑战。