Monday, March 09, 2026

MIT - unified framework of five principles in AI society

 This article, A unified framework of five principles for AI in society, written by L. Floridi and J. Cowls in 2019, provides a synthesis of other frameworks. The work predates the arrival of ChatGPT but the principles are even more important now as Gen AI moves towards becoming Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Table 1 in the article summarised where each principle is also present in 9 frameworks. The principles are beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, justice and explicability. These concur with the principles published of late, calling for increased ethical actions as Gen AI and agentic AI take hold. 

1 comment:

Stephen Downes said...

It was an ambitious work but was flawed. The supposed 'unified framework' breaks down at a macro level (not all elements are supported by all people) and at a micro level (when elements are defined more precisely, dispute about interpretation arise).