Ministry and universities launch AI development guidelines

Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology has cooperated with four prominent universities to launch a set of guidelines for the development of artificial intelligence (AI), writes Matthew Strong for Taiwan News.

According to the recently published guidelines, AI should be based on the core values of humanity, sustainable development and tolerance. The eight key guidelines focused on the common good and well-being, fairness and non-discrimination, autonomy and control, safety, privacy and data governance, transparency and traceability, explainability, and accountability and communication.

Minister of Science and Technology Chen Liang-gee said Taiwan’s semiconductor industry was ahead of the rest of the world by a decade, and that it had been training its own AI experts, but what it lacked was a stronger link between research and the market. In the 2020 central government budget, the ministry devotes 70% of its budget or TWD29.7 billion (US$957 million) to basic research, a hike of TWD4 billion compared to the previous year.
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