AI Ethics and Governance in Practice: Responsible Data Stewardship in Practice

In 2021, the UK's National AI Strategy recommended that UK Government’s official Public Sector Guidance on AI Ethics and Safety be transformed into a series of practice-based workbooks. The result is the AI Ethics and Governance in Practice Programme. This series of eight workbooks provides end-to-end guidance on how to apply principles of AI ethics and safety to the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of AI systems. It provides public sector organisations with a Process Based Governance (PBG) Framework designed to assist AI project teams in ensuring that the AI technologies they build, procure, or use are ethical, safe, and responsible. 

This is the fifth workbook in the series. This workbook aims to provide resources and training which help you and your team to ethically steward the data you access and utilise by proactively initiating and facilitating responsible data practices. You will learn how to use these tools and how they may be relevant at different stages of the project lifecycle. The tools, approaches, and policies introduced should be discussed with your core team and your stakeholders, and should be clearly documented.

Data is essential in developing AI models and systems, forming the core information on which they are trained, and, as such, shaping their knowledge base and epistemic (knowledge-contributing) capacity. For this reason, responsible data stewardship is crucial for developing ethical and responsible AI.

You can download a summary of the workbook below, alongside the full workbook.