In global AI race, Europe pins hopes on ethics; Politico, April 25, 2018

Janosch Delcker, Politico; 

In global AI race, Europe pins hopes on ethics

"One of the central goals in the EU strategy is to provide customers with insight into the systems.

That could be easier said than done.

“Algorithmic transparency doesn’t mean [platforms] have to publish their algorithms,” Ansip said, “but ‘explainability’ is something we want to get.”

AI experts say that to achieve such explainability, companies will, indeed, have to disclose the codes they’re using – and more.

Virginia Dignum, an AI researcher at the Delft University of Technology, said “transparency of AI is more than just making the algorithm transparent,” adding that companies should also have to disclose details such as which data was used to train their algorithms, which data are used to make decisions, how this data was collected, or at which point in the process humans were involved in the decision-making process."