Trustworthy and Responsible AI for Human-Centric Autonomous Decision-Making Systems

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has paved the way for revolutionary decision-making processes, which, if harnessed appropriately, can contribute to advancements in various sectors, from healthcare to economics. However, its black box nature presents significant ethical challenges related to bias and transparency. AI applications are hugely impacted by biases, presenting inconsistent and unreliable findings, leading to significant costs and consequences, highlighting and perpetuating inequalities and unequal access to resources. Hence, developing safe, reliable, ethical, and Trustworthy AI systems is essential. Our interdisciplinary team of researchers focuses on Trustworthy and Responsible AI, including fairness, bias mitigation, reproducibility, generalization, interpretability, explainability, and authenticity. In this paper, we review and discuss the intricacies of AI biases, definitions, methods of detection and mitigation, and metrics for evaluating bias. We also discuss open challenges with regard to the trustworthiness and widespread application of AI across diverse domains of humancentric decision making, as well as guidelines to foster Responsible and Trustworthy AI models.