NATO and US DoD AI Strategies Align with over 80 International Declarations on AI Ethics

In October, we included NATO's release of its first-ever strategy for artificial intelligence in the OODA Loop Daily Pulse. The strategy is primarily concerned with the impact AI will have on the NATO core commitments of collective defense, crisis management, and cooperative security. Worth a deeper dive is a framework within the overall NATO AI Strategy, which mirrors that of the DoD Joint Artificial Intelligence Center's (JAIC) and other U.S.-based efforts to establish norms around AI: "NATO establishes standards of responsible use of AI technologies, in accordance with international law and NATO's values." At the center of the NATO AI strategy are the "NATO Principles of Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence in Defence," which are based on the NATO and Allies commitment to "ensuring that the AI applications they develop and consider for deployment will be – at the various stages of their lifecycles – in accordance with the following six principles: Lawfulness, Responsibility and Accountability, Explainability and Traceability, Reliability, Governability, and Bias Mitigation." OODA Loop provides actionable intelligence, analysis, and insight on global security, technology, and business issues.