Announcing Community Research on AI Trust
As organizations continue to develop and embrace AI and machine learning-enabled technologies, conversations around the ethics and explainability of these solutions have increased within the tech industry as well as among the general public. In order to better understand data science and AI practitioner attitudes, practice, and opportunities with respect to various dimensions of AI Trust, Structure3C has launched a new survey.
Why aren’t organizations making progress on AI Trust?
Anaconda recently reported that more than ¾ of respondents to its “2020 State of Data Science” survey cited either bias, lack of diversity, security, or privacy as the biggest problem to tackle in the AI/ML arena today. Despite widespread agreement around the need to address these issues:
Only 15 percent of respondents indicated that their organization had already implemented a fairness solution
Only 19 percent said they had an explainability solution in place
A plurality of organizations, 39 percent, have no plan to implement a fairness and bias mitigation solution
30 percent of respondents who had knowledge of their company’s security practices stated that their organization does not have any mechanism in place to secure open source data science.
A look into current data science practice
Our study aims to help make sense of this apparent distance between an understanding of the problems related to AI Trust and the actions organizations have taken to address them to date. This research is the latest in our series examining technology's impact on the future of human networks, and it comes on the heels of our recent research and analysis of The Emerging Role of AI in Online Communities.
Call for participants and partners
We welcome the support from any individuals or organizations with significant networks or communities of data science and AI practitioners to help us distribute the survey.
If you are interested in helping distribute the survey and exploring partnership on publishing the results, please reach out to: research@structure3c.com.
If you are currently working in the data science field, please consider taking the survey here.
