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算法系统保证审计框架

A Framework for Assurance Audits of Algorithmic Systems

Khoa Lam, Benjamin Lange, Borhane Blili-Hamelin, Jovana Davidovic, Shea Brown, Ali Hasan

AI总结:

针对AI合规与保证审计缺乏标准的问题,提出借鉴财务审计的标准审计框架,给出程序蓝图,并以纽约市招聘算法偏见审计为例,讨论其益处、局限与实施挑战。

摘要:

越来越多的法规提出将AI审计作为实现人工智能(AI)系统透明度和问责制的机制。尽管围绕各种形式的AI审计出现了一些趋同的规范,但以合规和保证为目的的审计目前缺乏公认的实践、程序、分类和标准。我们提出标准审计(criterion audit)作为一种可操作的合规与保证外部审计框架。我们借鉴财务审计实践来建模该方法的要素,并主张AI审计应同样向其利益相关者提供保证,即AI组织有能力治理其算法,以减轻危害并维护人类价值观。我们讨论了标准审计的必要条件,并提供了在实践中执行审计参与的程序性蓝图。我们通过推导可对范围内的招聘算法进行偏见审计(bias audits)的标准,来说明该框架如何适应当前法规,这符合最近生效的纽约市2021年第144号地方法律的要求。最后,我们提供了关于将更成熟的财务审计行业的实践应用于AI审计的益处、固有局限性和实施挑战的批判性讨论,而在AI审计中,针对质量保证问题的强有力护栏才刚刚出现。我们的讨论——基于在实践中执行这些审计的经验——强调了审计生态系统在确保审计有效性方面所起的关键作用。

英文摘要:

An increasing number of regulations propose AI audits as a mechanism for achieving transparency and accountability for artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Despite some converging norms around various forms of AI auditing, auditing for the purpose of compliance and assurance currently lacks agreed-upon practices, procedures, taxonomies, and standards. We propose the criterion audit as an operationalizable compliance and assurance external audit framework. We model elements of this approach after financial auditing practices, and argue that AI audits should similarly provide assurance to their stakeholders about AI organizations' ability to govern their algorithms in ways that mitigate harms and uphold human values. We discuss the necessary conditions for the criterion audit and provide a procedural blueprint for performing an audit engagement in practice. We illustrate how this framework can be adapted to current regulations by deriving the criteria on which bias audits can be performed for in-scope hiring algorithms, as required by the recently effective New York City Local Law 144 of 2021. We conclude by offering a critical discussion on the benefits, inherent limitations, and implementation challenges of applying practices of the more mature financial auditing industry to AI auditing where robust guardrails against quality assurance issues are only starting to emerge. Our discussion -- informed by experiences in performing these audits in practice -- highlights the critical role that an audit ecosystem plays in ensuring the effectiveness of audits.

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