A Short Review of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Well-being Initiatives
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A Short Review of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Well-being Initiatives Laura Musikanski 1 Accepted: 22 October 2020/ # Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Abstract The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) launched two efforts that can provide guidance to community well-being researchers as well as those creating, promoting and using artificial intelligence (AI). One effort is a publication entitled Ethically Aligned Design (EAD) which includes a chapter on well-being. This chapter identifies problems and points the way to solutions that are pertinent to community well-being. The other effort is a standard entitled 7010–2020 Recommended Practice for Assessing the Impact of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems on Human Well-being which provides a method for measuring the impact of AI on community well-being as well as a near encyclopedic collection of well-being indicators from which both community wellbeing researchers and AI stakeholders can learn and draw when considering the impact of AI on community well-being. Keywords Artificial intelligence . Well-being . Community well-being . Institute of
electrical and electronics engineers . IEEE This review is inspired by the work of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (IEEE Global Initiative 2019). In 2019, the program published Ethically Aligned Design, First Edition (EAD), a seminal report on the intersection of Artificial Intelligence Systems (AIS)1 and the need for human-centric, values-driven design. EAD’s chapter and focus on well-being was inspired by an event called Prioritizing Human Well-being in the Age of Artificial Intelligence held by the IEEE Global Initiative at the European Parliament in Brussels in 2017. The event focused on the idea that having triple-bottom-line (also known as people, planet, and profit) metrics would be a more 1
AIS is a synonym for AI used by the IEEE Global Initiative
* Laura Musikanski [email protected]
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Happiness Alliance, Seattle, WA, United States
International Journal of Community Well-Being
holistic and beneficial way to measure and validate the design and output of Artificial Intelligence Systems (AIS) than with single-bottom line metrics focused on exponential growth and financial metrics alone. Inspired by this event and the well-being chapter in EAD, the IEEE Standard 7010–2020 Recommended Practice for Assessing the Impact of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems on Human Well-being (IEEE Standard 7010) was created and launched (IEEE, 2020). In 2019, the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group (2019) launched The Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI providing a global precedent for an essential shift towards well-being as the definition of success for AI: We believe that AI has the potential to significantly transform society. AI is not an end in itself, but rather a promising means to increase human flourishing, thereby enhancing individual and societal well-being a
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