Enterprise software firm SAP released guiding principles for artificial intelligence and the creation of an external AI ethics advisory panel, the first European technology company to do so.
The panel, comprised of experts from academia, politics and industry, will ensure the adoption of the principles and further develop them in collaboration with the AI steering committee at SAP, a group of SAP executives from development, strategy and human resources.
The new guidelines, the external panel and the internal committee aim to ensure that the AI capabilities supported by SAP Leonardo Machine Learning capabilities are used to maintain integrity and trust in all solutions.
SAP’s enterprise technology involves some 77% of the world’s transaction revenue and serves more than 400,000 customers worldwide. The European Commission has appointed Markus Noga, senior vice president, Machine Learning, SAP, to the high-level expert group on AI. The group was created to design a European AI strategy and propose ethical guidelines relating to fairness, safety, transparency, the future of work and democracy by early 2019.