IBM is happy to contribute to the community of best practices of achieving trustworthy AI and for this purpose we are developing multiple tools. One of those tools, which helps with the implementation of one of the key requirements for Trustworthy AI, namely diversity, non-discrimination and fairness, is called AI Fairness 360. 

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Bias in training data, due to either prejudice in labels or under-/over-sampling, yields models with unwanted bias. AI Fairness 360 is a comprehensive open-source toolkit of metrics to check for unwanted bias in datasets and machine learning models, and state-of-the-art algorithms to mitigate such bias. The toolkit is a library of novel algorithms, code, and tutorials that will give academics, researchers, and data scientists tools and knowledge to integrate bias detection and mitigation as they build and deploy machine learning models. 

We hope this will help other organisations to tackle potential unwanted biases in their AI systems and ensure a fairer, more trustworthy AI.

About Francesca Rossi

Francesca Rossi is the AI Ethics Global Leader and a Distinguished Research Staff Member at IBM Research AI, and a professor of computer science at the University of Padova, Italy, currently on leave. Her research interests focus on artificial intelligence, specifically constraint reasoning, preferences, multi-agent systems, computational social choice, and collective decision making. She is also interested in ethical issues in the development and behaviour of AI systems, in particular for decision support systems for group decision making. She co-chaired the AAAI committee on AI and ethics and she is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Future of Life Institute and of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.

She is in the executive committee of the IEEE global initiative on ethical considerations on the development of autonomous and intelligent systems and she belongs to the World Economic Forum Council on AI and robotics. She is a member of the board of directors of the Partnership on AI, where she represents IBM as one of the founding partners. Ms. Rossi is also a member of the High-Level Expert Group on AI.