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The creation of the Catalan Observatory for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (OEIAC) is part of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy promoted by the Government of Catalonia which, known as CATALONIA.AI , carries out a programme of initiatives for strengthening and establishing the action lines in developing and implementing AI systems, and turning Catalonia into a hub for innovation, leadership and attracting talent and enterprises in the area of the AI.
CATALONIA.AI includes an area on “Ethics and Society”, where the OEIAC fits in, for promoting AI ethics, complying with current legislation, being compatible with our social and cultural rules and putting people at the centre.The OEIAC is one of the cornerstones of the CATALONIA.AI Strategy, together with CIDAI, AIRA and the DCA-IA .
The CATALONIA.AI Strategy coincides with the “UdG2030 Strategic Plan: the Sum of Intelligences” at the University of Girona, which contemplates the creation of a Chair-Observatory for Ethics in AI, the OEIAC.
Collaboration between the Government of Catalonia and the University of Girona led to the creation, on the 29 June 2020, of the Catalan Observatory of Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (OEAIC), as a Chair at the University of Girona.
The OEIAC was created with the will of coordinating, structuring and advancing ethical considerations in relation to AI at a global and more local scale.Although these date back to the start of digital computer science, recent developments made have a much more extensive social impact and go much beyond a limited number of people interested in technology.
To represent the OEIAC symbolically, the logotype initially assumed the image of a rising column and, at the same time, an entire, raised and solid column.
The circumference, which represented the O for observatory, contained four homogeneous parts of the same size inside, which at the same time encircled the central point.The initial idea was to project an anticipated and insinuated combination that would rise from the base, taking into account natural intelligence and collective intelligence above everything, and artificial intelligence and hybrid intelligence as community resources in an environment where the differences and the points in common allow us to advance in a responsible way.
So the OEIAC symbol needs to be understood as a vehicle for a meaning that goes beyond the merely visual, where the sum of intelligences is the keystone.
After a period of consolidation, the OEIAC logotype assumed the complexity that the current technological changes mean, especially relating to artificial intelligence, in ethical, social and legal terms.This is why we adopted a new graphic image that, inspired in the former one and taking into account the resulting social impacts, contains seven ethical principles: (1) transparency and expainability, (2) justice and equity, (3) security and no wrongdoing, (4) responsibility and accountability, (5) privacy, (6) autonomy, and (7) sustainability.These are the seven principles that we use to apply our PIO Model (Principles, Indicators and Observables) through simplicity and a key question, effective for any public or private organisation that develops, manages or directs a project where there are artificial data and systems to understand easily: Have we done it?
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