AI auditing: The Broken Bus on the Road to AI Accountability
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| author | Birhane, Abeba Steed, Ryan Ojewale, Victor Vecchione, Briana Raji, Inioluwa Deborah |
| author_facet | Birhane, Abeba Steed, Ryan Ojewale, Victor Vecchione, Briana Raji, Inioluwa Deborah |
| contents | One of the most concrete measures to take towards meaningful AI accountability is to consequentially assess and report the systems' performance and impact. However, the practical nature of the "AI audit" ecosystem is muddled and imprecise, making it difficult to work through various concepts and map out the stakeholders involved in the practice. First, we taxonomize current AI audit practices as completed by regulators, law firms, civil society, journalism, academia, consulting agencies. Next, we assess the impact of audits done by stakeholders within each domain. We find that only a subset of AI audit studies translate to desired accountability outcomes. We thus assess and isolate practices necessary for effective AI audit results, articulating the observed connections between AI audit design, methodology and institutional context on its effectiveness as a meaningful mechanism for accountability. |
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| spellingShingle | AI auditing: The Broken Bus on the Road to AI Accountability Birhane, Abeba Steed, Ryan Ojewale, Victor Vecchione, Briana Raji, Inioluwa Deborah Computers and Society One of the most concrete measures to take towards meaningful AI accountability is to consequentially assess and report the systems' performance and impact. However, the practical nature of the "AI audit" ecosystem is muddled and imprecise, making it difficult to work through various concepts and map out the stakeholders involved in the practice. First, we taxonomize current AI audit practices as completed by regulators, law firms, civil society, journalism, academia, consulting agencies. Next, we assess the impact of audits done by stakeholders within each domain. We find that only a subset of AI audit studies translate to desired accountability outcomes. We thus assess and isolate practices necessary for effective AI audit results, articulating the observed connections between AI audit design, methodology and institutional context on its effectiveness as a meaningful mechanism for accountability. |
| title | AI auditing: The Broken Bus on the Road to AI Accountability |
| topic | Computers and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14462 |