The AI Ethics Code is a uniform system of guiding principles and rules designed to create an environment of trusted development of AI technologies. The Code is a tool that represents a soft law institution. The document has a nonbinding nature and adherence to the Code is voluntary. Adherence to the Code declares the AI developers' responsible attitude to their technologies.

Nowadays more than 340 Russian and 26 international participants of AI market joined the AI Ethics Code. All the members of the Code appoint officers on AI ethics who are responsible for the implementation of the Code. Among the officers on AI ethics the AI Ethics Commission is established.
The objectives of the Commission's activities are:
- Implementation of the provisions of the Code and the
organization of monitoring the effectiveness of its
implementation in the activities of AI Actors
- Interaction and exchange of experience on the ethics of
artificial intelligence
- Development of proposals on topical issues of artificial
intelligence development related to ethical aspects

Moreover, 5 working groups (WG) operate within the AI Ethics Commission on the following directions:
1) WG on Developing and Monitoring the Methodology of Risk Assessment and Humanitarian Impact of AI Systems
2) WG on Establishing a Set of Best Practices for Addressing Emerging Ethical Issues in the AI Lifecycle
3) WG on Assessing the Effectiveness of the Сode Implementation
4) WG on Establishing a Body of Best Practices for Addressing Emerging Ethical Issues in the AI Life Cycle
5) WG on AI Ethics in the Medical Field

These working groups issue the Recommendations on the different ethical case growing from AI implementation. For example: the recommendation systems use; the "trolley problem", the creation and use of human digital twins, etc.

We're going to expand the AI ethics principles on the global market and increase the number of foreign members to create an environment of trusted development and use of AI technologies.

https://ethics.a-ai.ru/

• Burkina Faso
• Belarus
• Cuba
• Cyprus
• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Israel
• Kenya
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Nigeria
• South Africa
• Senegal
• Tajikistan
• Uganda
• Russian Federation
• Uzbekistan
• Zambia

The AI Ethics Code promotes the creation of a safe and sustainable environment for the development, implementation and use of the AI technologies worldwide

The AI Ethics Code promotes the WSIS principle "Ethical dimensions of the Information Society": - The Information Society should respect peace and uphold the fundamental values of freedom, equality, solidarity, tolerance, shared responsibility, and respect for nature. - We acknowledge the importance of ethics for the Information Society, which should foster justice, and the dignity and worth of the human person. The widest possible protection should be accorded to the family and to enable it to play its crucial role in society. - The use of ICTs and content creation should respect human rights and fundamental freedoms of others, including personal privacy, and the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion in conformity with relevant international instruments. - All actors in the Information Society should take appropriate actions and preventive measures, as determined by law, against abusive uses of ICTs, such as illegal and other acts motivated by racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance, hatred, violence, all forms of child abuse, including paedophilia and child pornography, and trafficking in, and exploitation of, human beings.