Could regulating the creators deliver trustworthy AI?

TL;DR

This paper explores whether establishing a regulated profession like AI Architect could enhance trustworthiness in AI systems, addressing legal, ethical, and standards-based concerns amidst widespread AI deployment.

Contribution

It proposes the concept of a regulated AI profession to improve accountability and trustworthiness in AI development and deployment.

Findings

Regulation could increase transparency and accountability.

Establishing a new profession may address ethical and legal concerns.

Challenges include defining standards and global consistency.

Abstract

Is a new regulated profession, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) Architect who is responsible and accountable for AI outputs necessary to ensure trustworthy AI? AI is becoming all pervasive and is often deployed in everyday technologies, devices and services without our knowledge. There is heightened awareness of AI in recent years which has brought with it fear. This fear is compounded by the inability to point to a trustworthy source of AI, however even the term "trustworthy AI" itself is troublesome. Some consider trustworthy AI to be that which complies with relevant laws, while others point to the requirement to comply with ethics and standards (whether in addition to or in isolation of the law). This immediately raises questions of whose ethics and which standards should be applied and whether these are sufficient to produce trustworthy AI in any event.