Our mission is to build an ethical, competent, and accountable AI profession that supports the responsible adoption of this transformative and powerful technology. To see how you and your business/organisation can benefit from our flexible on-line courses, explore our AI skills, standards and ethics courses.
AI Assurance
BCS is leading the AI Assurance Stakeholder Consortium convened by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. It will bring together senior expert voices from across the UK's AI assurance ecosystem to support the development of a recognised AI assurance profession.
AI assurance is the process of measuring, evaluating, and communicating whether AI systems are trustworthy, safe, secure and working as intended. As AI becomes increasingly embedded across the economy and public services, independent and high-quality assurance will be critical to giving the public, small and medium sized businesses, and private investors confidence in the technology.
The Consortium will support this growth by developing practical building blocks for a future AI assurance profession, including:
- A voluntary, professional code of ethics
- A skills and competencies framework
- Work to map information access requirements for AI assurance providers
- Collaboration across sectors to raise the visibility, credibility, and quality of AI assurance services
Read more about the government consortium to build trust in AI and grow the UK assurance market.
BCS Analysis. Trustworthy Technology: Meeting Society's expectations for AI
The public expect tech professionals to be publicly registered and meet a code of conduct according to BCS research. Our report, Trustworthy Technology: Meeting Society's expectations for AI revealed overwhelming public support for professional registration of the technology workforce, particularly those working in high impact AI roles, according to a BCS commissioned, nationally representative YouGov survey of over 2,000 UK adults.
Findings include that 85% of respondents agreed that IT professionals working on systems that affect the public should be required to join a public register and follow an independent code of conduct, like doctors or lawyers.
Read the full findings on AI ethics and professional registrations in the UK Download the Trustworthy Technology AI ethics report (PDF)
BCS Consultations
BCS speaks regularly to government and a range of stakeholders to ensure that professional standards and tech professionals themselves are at the heart of AI's development. For instance, we responded to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology's consultation on the proposed AI Growth Lab - a cross-economy sandbox designed to accelerate responsible AI innovation.
The full list of BCS responses to all consultations available here.
