Abstract

In 2018, EARMA established the Ethics and Research Integrity Officer Network (ERION) thematic group. ERION is an open community to discuss the practical and implementation side of Research Ethics and Integrity. It is a community of practitioners, rules and procedure experts, and its main purpose is to provide a forum for knowledge-sharing and collaboration in order to facilitate implementation of relevant policy and establishment of best practices.

One of the upcoming key challenges for the RMA community is ethics within artificial intelligence. European projects require ethical self-assessments for all research in which AI is involved based on the Assessment List for Thrust worthy Artificial Intelligence (ALTAI) principles: human agency and oversight, technical robustness and safety, privacy and data governance, transparency, diversity, noon-discrimination and fairness, environmental and societal wellbeing and accountability. Since this is a new field, researchers and research managers are looking for strategies on how to best apply and implement these principles within their research and research proposals. On the other hand, the legislators or European Commission would very much appreciate feedback on the AI ethics implementation from the field.

In this one-hour interactive workshop, we would like to discuss several AI case studies and best practices on how to best implement the AI/ethics strategies within research with our EARMA community. We will have cases in multiple research areas in different research development phases. Furthermore, we will explore how to establish an ethics life cycle approach for AI projects. The results will be documented in a report to be shared with the EU Commission and the EARMA community.