U.K. Data Watchdog Releases Draft Guidance on AI Decision-Making

Organizations that use artificial intelligence to make decisions should be transparent and consider the effects on individuals, a U.K. regulator says in draft guidance. The draft, unveiled Dec. 2 by the Information Commissioner's Office and co-released by the Alan Turig Institute, the U.K.'s national data science and artificial intelligence institute, aims to help organizations explain AI decisions about individuals. Organizations should consider AI systems' context and effects in order to explain that their use won't harm people's wellbeing, according to the draft. The ICO is accepting comments on the draft until Jan. 24. "The decisions made using AI need to be properly understood by the people they impact," Simon McDougall, executive director for technology policy and innovation at the data protection agency, wrote in a blog post.