We’ve seen a lot of interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) over the last year, especially generative AI. Here are some good pieces of AI guidance you may like to consider for your project.
- The Interim Generative AI guidance for the public service was developed by government experts in data, digital, procurement, privacy, and cyber security.
- The Office of the Privacy Commission released guidance on Artificial Intelligence and the information privacy principles.
- The AI Forum has developed a website of AI Governance which offers resources for inclusive and responsible AI adoption, including working with Māori data along with practical tool kits to support you in your AI journey.
- The OCED Principles for trustworthy AI offer value-based principles, with examples of the principles in practice.
- The International Science Council, led by Sir Prof Peter Gluckman, released A guide for policy-makers: Evaluating rapidly developing technologies including AI, large language models and beyond in April 2024. The guide comes with a useful framework you can fill out with questions to help you evaluate a large language model.
- If you are looking at procuring AI, the Algorithm Impact Assessment Questionnaire offers guidance about procuring algorithms. It is a good place to start thinking about the issues you’ll need to consider. Remember, there are a number of steps in procuring AI where you’ll need to think about ethics. This includes:
- Pre-procurement - is AI really the solution? Would another tested technology be just as good for your problem?
- During the procurement process – do you understand the training data? Who owns the data the system has been trained on? Does the data fit our New Zealand context?
- Post-procurement – even when the AI is embedded, you will need to continue to monitor and test the system to make sure it has not drifted, and that bias is not present.
