Policy Documents & Institutions - ethical, legal and socio-economic issues of robotics and artificial intelligence

Policy Documents

Note: We stopped listing 'notable' policy documents with the end of 2019 - when every government, association and society started producing such work.

The OECD Observatory now (end 2020) has a useful and structured survey: https://oecd.ai/dashboards?selectedTab=countries

(An inventory in a long alphabetical list on: https://inventory.algorithmwatch.org.)

• (2019) US Dept. of Defense AI Ethical Guidelines, 01.11.2019
• (2019) OECD Principles on Artificial Intelligence, 22.05.2019
• (2019) European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLEG) "Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI" 09.04.2019
• (2019) IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, "Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-Being with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems", 25 March 2019, 294pp.
• (2019) Nuffield Foundation "Ethical and societal implications of algorithms, data, and artificial intelligence: A roadmap for research", 13.02.2019
• (2018) European Commmission, "Coordinated Plan on Artificial Intelligence", 07.12.2018 (to be updated annually)
• (2018) AI NOW Report, A research institute examining the social implications of artificial intelligence, NYU, December 2018
• (2018) AI at Google: our principles, 7 June 2018
• (2018) UK House of Lords, Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence "AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?" 16 April 2018 - "Government Response ..." June 2018
• (2018) Wellcome Trust (Future Advocacy) "Ethical, social, and political challenges for AI in health", April 2018.
• (2018) European Commission, DG Connect, Robotics and AI Unit  "The European Artificial Intelligence landscape", 18. April 2018
• (2018) European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies "Statement on artificial intelligence", March 2018
• (2018) C. Villani et al. "For a Meaningful Artificial Intelligence: Towards a French and European Strategy", 152pp, Report to the French Government, 08 March 2018
• (2018) FHI, CSER, CNAS, EFF, OpenAI - M. Brundage et al.: "The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation", 101pp, 21 February 2018
• (2017) Report "Ethics Commission: Automated and Connected Driving" German Federal Ministry of Transport, June 2017
• (2017) European Economic and Social Committee "The consequences of Artificial Intelligence on the (digital) single market, production, consumption, employment and society", 31 May 2017.
• (2017) "Green positions on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence", The Greens, European Parliament, 05. March 2017
• (2017) euRobotics Topics Group "Ethical Legal and Social Issues",  "Position Paper: Ethical, Legal and Socio-economic Issues in Robotics".
• (2017) The Impact of Robots on Productivity, Employment and Jobs. A positioning paper by the International Federation of Robotics, April 2017
• (2017) Déclaration de Montréal pour le développement responsable de l'IA, Université du Montréal
• (2017) British Standards Institute (BSI), "Robots and robotic devices. Guide to the ethical design and application of robots and robotic systems", BS 8611:2016, April 2017.
• (2017) UNICRI & CSER "The Risks and Benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics" (workshop report), 6-7.02.2017
• (2017) EU Parliament “REPORT with recommendations to the Commission on Civil Law Rules on Robotics", 27.01.2017, A8-0005/2017
• (2017) "The Asilomar Principles", AI 2017 Conference, Asilomar, Cal., 5-8 January 2017
• (2016) The White House, The Administration’s Report on the Future of Artificial Intelligence, 12.10.2016
• (2016) Science and Technology Options Assessment STOA Policy Briefing "Legal and ethical reflections concerning robotics" 06-2016.
• (2016) IEEE "Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Wellbeing with Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems" http://standards.ieee.org/develop/indconn/ec/autonomous_systems.html
• (2013-16) RockEU "Robotics Coordination Action for Europe" -  esp. the Deliverables 3.4 on economics, regulation and ethics.
• (2016) Robotics 2020, Multi-Annual Roadmap (MAR), for calls ICT-25/28/29 , https://eu-robotics.net/sparc/newsroom/press/multi-annual-roadmap-mar-for-horizon-2020-call-ict-2017-ict-25-ict-27-ict-28-published.html
• (2016) World Economic Forum, “The Future of Jobs: Employment, Skills and Workforce Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution” http://reports.weforum.org/future-of-jobs-2016/
• (2016) Responsible research and innovation (RRI) 'navigator', http://res-agora.eu project, Fraunhofer, http://res-agora.eu/assets/Res-AGorA_Responsibility_Navigator.pdf
• (2015) Open Roboethics Institute, Summary Report "The Ethics and Governance of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems"
• (2014), Chatila, Raja et al.: Éthique de la recherche en robotique (Rapport n° 1 de la CERNA Commission de réflexion sur l’Éthique de la Recherche en sciences et technologies du Numérique d’Allistene) 63pp. http://cerna-ethics-allistene.org/digitalAssets/38/38704_Avis_robotique_livret.pdf
• (2014) ISO 13482 - the new safety standard for personal care robots. http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/N-298510.html
• (2014), Palmerini, Erica et al.: Guidelines on Regulating Robotics, 22/09/2014 (http://www.robolaw.eu/) 215pp.
• (2014) Robots and robotic devices — Guide to the ethical design and application of robots and robotic systems. Proposal BS 8XXX, British Standards Institute (BSI) - now BS 8611:2016. http://standardsproposals.bsigroup.com/Proposal/View/3604
• (2013) Strategic Research Agenda for robotics, euRobotics AISBL, Draft 0.42 (p. 17-19) http://ec.europa.eu/research/industrial_technologies/pdf/robotics-ppp-roadmap_en.pdf
• (2012) euRobotics CA, D3.2.1 Ethical Legal and Societal issues in robotics, Ch. Leroux & R. Labruto. https://eu-robotics.net/cms/upload/PDF/euRobotics_Deliverable_D.3.2.1_ELS_IssuesInRobotics.pdf
• (2012) Robot Companions: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues, Coordination Action for the design and description of the FET Flagship candidate Robot Companions for Citizens, Tony Prescott et al. (Deliverable D2.4) http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_382_sum_en.pdf http://www.robotcompanions.eu/system/files/page-files/Robot%20Companions%20Ethical%20Legal%20and%20Social%20Issues.pdf
• (2012) Eurobarometer 382 survey on public attitudes towards robots -http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_382_sum_en.pdf
• (2011) ISO 10218-1:2011, Robots and robotic devices -- Safety requirements for industrial robots -- Part 1: Robots, July 2011. https://www.iso.org/standard/51330.html
• (2010) EPSRC “Principles of robotics: Regulating robots in the real world” http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/research/ourportfolio/themes/engineering/activities/principlesofrobotics/ http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/research/ourportfolio/themes/engineering/activities/roboticsretreat/
• (2006) EURON ROBOETHICS ROADMAP, EURON Roboethics Atelier, Genoa, 27th of February – 3rd of March, 2006 http://www.roboethics.org/atelier2006/docs/ROBOETHICS%20ROADMAP%20Rel2.1.1.pdf