About us

The Responsible AI Research (RAIR) Centre is a landmark collaboration of experts from Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, and the University of Adelaide, in partnership with the South Australian Government.

What is Responsible AI?

According to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), responsible artificial intelligence (AI) denotes international efforts to align AI with societal values and expectations, including addressing ethical concerns around bias, transparency, and privacy. Responsible AI seeks to ensure that AI is developed and deployed in the interests of everyone, regardless of gender, race, faith, demographic, location, or net worth.

Principles of responsible AI

Responsible AI is the practice of developing and using AI systems in a way that provides benefits to individuals, groups, and the wider society while minimising the risk of negative consequences. Given their increasing importance in our society and economy, AI systems must be trusted to behave and make decisions in a responsible manner. 

Values and ethics must be hard-wired into the very design of AI from the beginning.

While there isn’t a fixed, universally agreed-upon set of principles for Responsible AI, the Australian Department of Industry, Science and Resources has identified 10 guardrails to ‘create a foundation for safe and responsible AI use.’

Centre objectives

The RAIR centre has been designed to place Australia at the global forefront of research into safe and responsible artificial intelligence.

RAIR will focus on developing fundamental responsible AI research at the right scale to have impact at both a national and international level by combining the Software Engineering for AI (SE4AI) strength of CSIRO’s Data61 with AIML’s strength in machine learning research and translation.

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