通过培训组织内倡导者,推动算法透明落地实践。
Making Transparency Advocates: An Educational Approach Towards Better Algorithmic Transparency in Practice
- 设计开源教育工作坊,培养组织内部的透明性倡导者。
- 参与者在会后主动推动组织内算法透明议题,如在战略会议发声。
- 不同职业背景者倡导意愿差异明显,媒体从业者更积极。
人工智能风险引发对算法透明性的广泛关注,催生了可解释人工智能(XAI)这一子领域。然而,尽管XAI发展已逾十年,其研究成果尚未充分转化为组织实际的算法透明实践。本文提出一种新方法:培育组织内的透明性倡导者,推动自下而上的文化变革。我们历时数年开发并交付一套开源教育工作坊,面向两个不同领域的专业人士,提升其算法透明素养与倡导意愿。工作坊结束后,参与者在组织中实际应用所学,例如在全员AI战略会议上为算法透明发声。研究还发现:倡导行为可分层级;且专业领域显著影响倡导意愿——媒体与新闻从业者比科技初创企业员工更可能推动透明化变革。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Concerns about the risks and harms posed by artificial intelligence (AI) have resulted in significant study into algorithmic transparency, giving rise to a sub-field known as Explainable AI (XAI). Unfortunately, despite a decade of development in XAI, an existential challenge remains: progress in research has not been fully translated into the actual implementation of algorithmic transparency by organizations. In this work, we test an approach for addressing the challenge by creating transparency advocates, or motivated individuals within organizations who drive a ground-up cultural shift towards improved algorithmic transparency. Over several years, we created an open-source educational workshop on algorithmic transparency and advocacy. We delivered the workshop to professionals across two separate domains to improve their algorithmic transparency literacy and willingness to advocate for change. In the weeks following the workshop, participants applied what they learned, such as speaking up for algorithmic transparency at an organization-wide AI strategy meeting. We also make two broader observations: first, advocacy is not a monolith and can be broken down into different levels. Second, individuals' willingness for advocacy is affected by their professional field. For example, news and media professionals may be more likely to advocate for algorithmic transparency than those working at technology start-ups.
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