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differences among contexts and geographies, a model to develop, measure, and track the progress of ethical AI
policy-making and solution adoption amongst governments is needed.

The AIWS Report about AI Ethics, therefore, proposes the model of Government AIWS Ethics and Practices
Index and looks at the strategies, activities and progresses of major governments (including G7 countries:
Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States and other influential
countries such as Russia, China, India) in the field of AI.

Government AIWS Ethics and Practices Index

This index measures the extent to which a government in its Artificial Intelligence (AI) activities respects
human values and contributes to the constructive use of AI.

The Index has four categories:
1. Transparency. Substantially promotes and applies openness and transparency in the use and
development of AI, including data sets, algorithms, intended impacts, goals, purposes. This ethic
applies to individuals, corporations, academic institutions, and governments.
2. Regulation. Has laws and regulations that require government agencies to use AI responsibly; that are
aimed at requiring private parties to use AI humanely and that restricts their ability to engage in
harmful AI practices; and that prohibit the use of AI by government to disadvantage political
opponents.
3. Promotion. Invests substantially in AI initiatives that promote shared human values; refrains from
investing in harmful (and exploitative) uses of AI (e.g., autonomous weapons, propaganda creation
and dissemination, social control).
4. Implementation: How governments seriously execute their regulations, law in AI toward social good.
Respects and commits to widely accepted principles and rules of international law. Promotes and
engages with non-profits, academic institutions, and corporations collaborate and establish ethical AI
principles. Ensures AI is developed and used in line with basic principles of Democracy, Human
Rights and the Rule of Law.

Methodology: Governments will be assessed in each category by the standards of the moment. AI is in an
early stage, and governments are only beginning to address the issue through, for example, laws and
regulations. Later on, as governments have had more time to assess the implications of AI, more substantial
efforts will be expected—for example, a more fully articulated set of AI-related laws and regulations.

Criteria for evaluation and control of ethics in AI
• Purpose: The purpose of AI is to achieve well-being and happiness of the people, to unleash the
limitless possibility of humans, to provide more freedom to people, released from the constraints of
resources and from inflexible rules/processes, and to solve important issues faced by mankind, such
as SDGs.

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