Ai Ethics Consulting is a new initiative by the AI ethics researcher and visual artist Lorenzo Belenguer. Its mission is to facilitate ethics at the core of the AI industry in a pragmatic manner to provide machine-centric solutions to develop a human-centric AI. And to prepare your organisation from upcoming legislation such as the EU AI Act. The role of Ai Ethics Consulting is to mediate between the team of makers and decision-makers (CEOs, Data Scientists, programmers) and armchair philosophers to provide recommendations applicable to machine-led systems. Additionally, to mitigate harm which tends to affect historically marginalised groups (womxn, people of colour, indigenous communities, the queer community, and low-income society groups). As Belenguer says in his paper published by the Springer magazine AI & Ethics: "A new and unorthodox approach to deal with discriminatory bias in Artificial Intelligence is needed. As it is explored in detail, the current literature is a dichotomy, with studies originating from the contrasting fields of study of either philosophy and sociology or data science and programming. It is suggested that there is a need instead to integrate both academic approaches. Furthermore, it needs to be machine-centric rather than human-centric, applied with a deep understanding of societal and individual prejudices. This article is a novel approach developed into a framework of action: a bias impact assessment to raise awareness of bias and why, a clear set of methodologies as shown in a table comparing with the four stages of pharmaceutical trials, and a summary flowchart". Lorenzo Belenguer holds an MA in Artificial Intelligence & Philosophy from the New College of the Humanities, London, and a BA (Hons) in Economics and Business Sciences from the University of Valencia, Spain. Belenguer is particularly interested in Ethical Frameworks (as Frameworks of Action), Human Interaction with AI and Machine Learning.
