AI at work -- Mitigating safety and discriminatory risk with technical standards
It addresses safety and discrimination issues for workers and organizations, but is incremental as it reviews standards rather than proposing new solutions.
The paper examines existing and developing technical standards for mitigating safety and discriminatory risks of AI in workplaces, focusing on industrial production and human resource management, as part of the 'ExamAI' project.
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and AI methods in the workplace holds both great opportunities as well as risks to occupational safety and discrimination. In addition to legal regulation, technical standards will play a key role in mitigating such risk by defining technical requirements for development and testing of AI systems. This paper provides an overview and assessment of existing international, European and German standards as well as those currently under development. The paper is part of the research project "ExamAI - Testing and Auditing of AI systems" and focusses on the use of AI in an industrial production environment as well as in the realm of human resource management (HR).