Rights & Ethics

AI system impact assessment

Assessment of potential effects of an AI system on people and society.

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A process to identify and evaluate the potential impacts of an AI system on individuals, groups of individuals, and society.

AIIA is a guidance-oriented, repeatable framework to identify, analyse and document how an AI system and its foreseeable uses may affect individuals, groups and society throughout the AI lifecycle (design, development, deployment and post-deployment monitoring). It is distinct from, but aligned with, other assessments (e.g., risk assessments, DPIAs) and is intended to produce auditable records of identified benefits, harms, mitigations and monitoring plans.