IEEE Offers Two AI Ethics Certifications

By Amber Ankerholz

The certifications cover individuals as well as products.

The IEEE Standards Association is offering two AI certifications – one for individuals and one for products – through its new IEEE CertifAIEd ethics program.

The IEEE CertifAIEd professional certification and training program covers topics such as responsible AI, global ethics initiatives, ethics profiling, IEEE ethical criteria, and the AI Ethics Framework and Methodology.

The product certification “assesses whether an organization’s AI tool or AIS conforms to the IEEE framework and continuously aligns with legal and regulatory principles such as the European Union AI Act.”

And, according to the announcement, the following key areas provide the framework for IEEE CertifAIEd certification:

Transparency criteria, relating to values embedded in a system design and the openness and disclosure of choices made for development and operation
Accountability criteria, which recognize that the system/service autonomy and learning capacities are the results of algorithms and computational processes designed by humans and organizations that remain responsible for their outcomes
Algorithmic bias criteria, relating to the prevention of systematic errors and repeatable undesirable behaviors that create unfair outcomes
Privacy criteria, aimed at respecting the private sphere of life and public identity of an individual, group, or community, upholding dignity

Additionally, the program incorporates criteria outlined in the AI ontological specifications released under Creative Commons licenses.

Learn more at IEEE.