Ruth Linden
Ruth works as a policy advisor for the Europol Innovation Lab. Under the umbrella of the EU Innovation Hub for Internal Security, she contributes to the "Accountability Principles for AI" (AP4AI) project, run in partnership with five EU JHA Agencies and their academic partner CENTRIC, aiming at developing accountability principles for the use of AI in the field of internal security.
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The challenge for internal security practitioners including law enforcement and the justice sector is to determine how to capitalise on the opportunities offered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning to improve the way investigators, prosecutors, judges or border guards carry out their mission of keeping citizens safe and rendering justice while, at the same time, safeguarding and demonstrating true accountability of AI use towards society.
The AP4AI (Accountability Principles for Artificial Intelligence) Project addresses this challenge by creating a global Framework for AI Accountability for Policing, Security and Justice. The AP4AI Framework is grounded in empirically verified Accountability Principles for AI as carefully researched and accessible standard, which supports internal security practitioners in implementing AI and Machine Learning tools in an accountable and transparent manner and in line with EU values and fundamental rights.
The project has defined and validated set of universal Accountability for AI Principles that internal security practitioners including the justice sector may adopt in order to demonstrate accountability in their use of AI. The principles are universal and jurisdiction-neutral, to be used as a guide by internal security and justice practitioners globally to support existing governance and accountability mechanisms through self-audit, monitoring and review. The AP4AI Project provides an implementation blueprint for the deployment of AI for internal security practitioners.
The AP4AI Project is jointly conducted by CENTRIC and Europol and supported by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Eurojust, the EU Agency for Asylum (EUAA) and the EU Agency for Police Training (CEPOL) in the framework of the EU Innovation Hub for Internal Security.
This submission will present the project narrative, approach as well as results of the project and their relevance for the internal security domain.
Co-authors: Saskia P. Bayerl & Babak Akhgar