About the Global Index on Responsible AI
The Global Index is designed to equip governments, civil society, and stakeholders with the evidence needed to advance rights-based principles for the responsible use of AI
The Global Index on Responsible AI
AI must be used responsibly if societies around the world are to enjoy the benefits of AI while avoiding the risks of even greater social and economic inequalities. The ongoing governance of AI must ensure that new applications uphold human rights and are developed to be inclusive, accountable, and environmentally sustainable.
Principles, such as the UNESCO Recommendation on Ethics in AI and the OECD Principles on AI Ethics, have been developed to guide the ethical development and use of AI, but new approaches to gathering reliable evidence of progress are required to ensure these principles are being implemented across all sectors of society.
It is critical to understand the current state of play and to be able to track progress over time. This project will establish a new tool that addresses the need to measure progress based on a shared understanding of what responsible AI looks like in practice, and then track the implementation of responsible AI principles by governments and stakeholders around the world.
With this new source of evidence, benchmarking the state of responsible AI on a country by country basis, policymakers and community leaders will be able to strengthen national initiatives to advance the responsible use of AI.
A Human Rights-based Approach
One of the key innovations of the Global Index on Responsible AI is the development of a fully-integrated human rights-based approach as a foundation for the assessment methodology. This work entails codifying existing human rights obligations that align to responsible AI principles in order to establish concrete benchmarks that will serve as trackable indicators for the Global Index.
In addition, the methodology is being developed to reflect current realities around the realisation of socio-economic rights, availability of resources, and the diverse conditions within individual countries that may impact progress toward rights-based benchmarks.

Objectives
Benchmarks
Establish globally recognised and reusable benchmarks for responsible AI
Assessment
Assess and track country conditions over time to support and promote responsible AI
Implementation
Provide evidence to policy-makers to develop and implement strategies to advance responsible AI
Value
Inclusion & Participation
The Global Index will be co-created with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure its broadest possible use with a specific emphasis on the perspectives of underserved and marginalised groups.
Fairness & Relevance
The Global Index will fairly reflect local contexts and realities and measure a country’s level of responsible AI in relation to available resources and capacities.
Accessibility & Openness
The Global Index and all data will be open and accessible to all stakeholders and researchers wishing to explore or re-use the data.
Coherence & Collaboration
The Global Index will align with other instruments being developed to support the responsible use of AI worldwide in partnership with key organisations like UNESCO and the OECD.
Research Team
Rachel Adams
Project Lead & Principle Investigator
Pyrou Chung
Director of Open Development Initiative, EWMI
Stephen B. Walker
Global Hub Director
Fiona Chawana
Communications Officer
Nicolás Grossman
Deputy Project Director
Nokuthula Olorunju
Researcher
Nawal Omar
Data and Knowledge Scientist
Zara Schroeder
Communications Officer
Kelly Stone
Director - Capacity Building
Ana Florido
Methods and Data Lead
Jackline Akello
Researcher
Diana Nyakundi
Network Coordinator
Expert Advisory Committee
The role of the Expert Advisory Committee (EAC) is to oversee the scientific accuracy and global relevance of the Global Index. Made up of a diverse group of international experts on artificial intelligence, the EAC plays a key oversight role with respect to the inclusivity of the methodology and design of the Global Index. The EAC also works to ensure that the Global Index builds on and complements other important global initiatives to advance ethical and responsible AI.
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