Ethics framework

The Ethics Assessment Framework will be developed to be tailored to the specific VIGILANT needs to enable the consortium members to develop the system in accordance with the most up-to-date ethics standards and to ensure that the developed platform has the highest possible positive ethical impact with minimal ethical risks. The Ethics framework will follow the principles set out by the High-Level Expert Group on AI (of which Maria Bielikova of KInIT is a member). It will especially focus on: 1) Autonomy and human agency, considering that the VIGILANT platform provides automated tools to support human decision making; 2) Privacy and data protection issues; 3) Transparency and interpretability of the automated analysis results; 4) Fairness, diversity and non-discrimination related to profiling activities; 5) Societal well-being and democracy, especially considering potential chilling effects on basic freedoms such as freedom of information and expression. Finally, dual use considerations will play an important role in the assessment of the VIGILANT platform, including potential issues regarding export control restrictions in line with the most recent EU normative developments.