Microsoft Word - FIT XXXXXXXXXXAssignment 4 Ethical Framework Review v2.docx
FACULTY OF
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
2020 1
FIT5205 DATA IN SOCIETY
ASSIGNMENT 4: CRITICAL REVIEW OF AN EMERGING ETHICAL AI
FRAMEWORK
Your task
You will be assigned an emerging Ethical AI framework to investigate
and critically review. You will be required to:
Describe and explain its content, context and stakeholders
Identify and discuss its ethical stance (demonstrating your
ability to apply the Beard & Longstaff ethical design
framework)
Canvas and discuss its governance
o How would individuals and organisations demonstrate
that they are acting in accordance with the framework?
o How would individuals and organisations be held to
account with the framework?
o What regulatory structures and bodies are required?
A summary of its strengths and limitations
Value 30% of your total marks for the unit.
Word Limit
2,000 ‐ 2,500 words (excluding references)
Due Date Week 14: Friday 26 June 2020, 11.55pm
Submission Via Moodle Assignment Submission.
Turnitin will be used for similarity checking of all submissions.
Assessment
Criteria
Ability to undertake the necessary research and analysis, write
with clarity and cohesion, cite and reference as required.
Ability to describe and explain the framework's content, context
and stakeholders.
Ability to identify and discuss its ethical stance.
Ability to canvas and discuss its governance.
Ability to come to a consistent conclusion regarding its strengths
and limitations.
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REVIEW REQUIREMENTS
Your review will be written in the form of a report and should include:
An Executive Summary
A Table of Contents
An introduction indicating the aim, focus, and structure of the report
An explanation of the content, context and stakeholders associated with the
Ethical AI Framework
A discussion of the Framework’s ethical stance.
A discussion of the Framework’s governance
A conclusion summarising its strengths and limitations
In‐text citations and a reference list to the evidence base of your report using the
APA style of citing and referencing.
Report formatting requirements – 10‐12 point font, margins not less than 2
centimetres from all sides, single‐spaced.
The Q Manual from the Monash Business School has some great advice about report
writing. See https:
www.monash.edu
usiness/cu
ent‐students/study‐
esources/qmanual.pdf
REFERENCES
These resources may be of use in developing your report
Beard, M., & Longstaff, S. (2018). Ethical by Design: Principles for Good Technology. The
Ethics Centre. https:
ethics.org.au/ethical‐by‐design/ [Pdf available on the Moodle
site for the unit]
Farthing, S., Howell, J., Lecchi, K., Paleologos, Z., Saintilan, P., & Santow, E. (2019). Human
Rights and Technology Discussion Paper. Australian Human Rights Commission.
https:
tech.humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019‐
12/TechRights2019_DiscussionPaper.pdf
Jobin, A., Ienca, M., & Vayena, E. (2019). The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines. Nature
Machine Intelligence, 1(9), 389–399. https:
www.nature.com/articles/s42256‐019‐
0088‐2
Pe
ault, R., Shoham, Y., Brynjolfsson, E., Clark, J., Etchemendy, J., Grosz, B., Lyons, T.,
Manyika, J., Mishra, S., & Niebles, J. C. (2019). Chapter 8: Societal Considerations. In
Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2019 (pp. 146–155). AI Index Steering Committee,
Human‐Centered AI Institute, Stanford University.
https:
hai.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj10986/f/ai_index_2019_report.pdf
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Theodorou, A., & Dignum, V. (2020). Towards ethical and socio‐legal governance in AI.
Nature Machine Intelligence, 2(1), 10–12. https:
www‐nature‐
com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/articles/s42256‐019‐0136‐y
ASSESSMENT
A marking ru
ic will be available on the Moodle site for the unit.
CITING AND REFERENCING
You must appropriately acknowledge ALL the sources that you use in develop your
assignment submission, so that it is clear what are your ideas and what are the ideas of
others.
Use the APA Style (http:
guides.lib.monash.edu/content.php?pid=346637&sid=2835402)
to provide enough information about your references so that a future reader may locate
and read the original source.
Please also note the following from the ‘Student Academic Integrity: Managing Plagiarism
and Collusion Procedures’ of Monash, available at http:
www.policy.monash.edu/policy‐
ank/academic/education/conduct/student‐academic‐integrity‐managing‐plagiarism‐
collusion‐procedures.html.
Plagiarism occurs when students fail to acknowledge that the ideas of others are being
used. Specifically it occurs when:
other people’s work and/or ideas are paraphrased and presented without a
eference;
other people’s work is copied either in whole or in part;
other people’s designs, codes or images are presented as the student’s own work;
phrases and passages are used ve
atim without quotation marks and/or without
a reference to the author or a web page;
lecture notes are reproduced without due acknowledgement.