WALLDORF, Germany, Sept. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE:
SAP) today announced its guiding principles for artificial
intelligence (AI) and its 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. As the market leader
in enterprise technology that touches 77% of the world's
transaction revenue and serves more than 400,000 customers
worldwide, SAP solutions and applications impact the lives of
billions of people daily.
"SAP considers the ethical use of data a core value," said Luka
Mucic, Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Executive Board,
SAP. "We want to create software that enables the intelligent
enterprise and actually improves people's lives. Such principles
will serve as the basis to make AI a technology that augments human
talent."
SAP guiding principles reflect the company's commitment to
comply with the highest ethical standards. They highlight the core
values SAP applies to enable business beyond bias, maintain
transparency and integrity and uphold quality and safety. These
principles support SAP in refusing to compromise on data protection
and privacy, and enable SAP to be an active participant in the
community that is engaged in resolving the wider societal
challenges of AI.
Five members of the advisory panel have already been
confirmed:
- Prof. Dr. theol. Peter Dabrock, Chair of Systematic Theology
(Ethics), University of Erlangen-Nuernberg
- Prof. Dr. Henning Kagermann; Chairman, acatech Board of
Trustees; acatech Senator
- Dr. Susan Liautaud; Lecturer in
Public Policy and Law, Stanford &
Founder; Managing Director, Susan
Liautaud & Associates Limited (SLAL)
- Prof. Dr. Helen Nissenbaum,
Professor, Cornell Tech Information Science
- Dr. Nicholas Wright; Consultant,
Intelligent Biology; Affiliated Scholar, Pellegrino Center for
Clinical Bioethics Georgetown
University Medical Center; Honorary Research Associate,
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
SAP plans to add more members to the panel in coming months.
"AI offers immense opportunities, but it also raises
unprecedented and often unpredictable ethics challenges for society
and humanity," said Susan Liautaud.
"The AI ethics advisory panel allows us to ensure an ethical AI,
which serves humanity and benefits society."
Implementing a European Strategy for AI
The guiding
principles also contribute to Europe's debate on AI. The European Commission
has appointed Markus Noga, senior
VP, 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.
For more information, visit the AI ethics Web site and SAP News
Center. Follow SAP on Twitter at @SAPLeonardo and
@sapnews.
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