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The Institute for Ethical AI & ML

A practical framework for Responsible ML

Alejandro Saucedo

@AxSaucedo
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The Institute for Ethical AI & ML

A practical framework for Responsible ML

 Alejandro Saucedo

<br> Chairman <br> <a style="color: cyan" href="http://ethical.institute">The Institute for Ethical AI & ML</a> <br> <br> Chief Engineer & Scientist <br> <a style="color: cyan" href="http://e-x.io">Exponential</a> <br> <br> AI Fellow / Member <br> <a style="color: cyan" href="#">The RSA & EU AI Alliance</a> <br> <br> Advisor <br> <a style="color: cyan" href="http://teensinai.com">TeensInAI.com initiative</a> <br> <br> </td>

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A practical framework for Responsible ML

Motivations

Overview of Institute

Responsible AI Framework

Next steps!

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#LetsDoThis

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1. Motivations

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Traditional data science generalised in two workflows

• Model Development
• Model Serving

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If we have a small team or a small/simple project...

We can cope with the issues

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• Small number of models to maintain
• Data scientists have knowledge of models in their head
• They each have their methods for tracking their progress

### It all works relatively well!

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However

As our data science requirements grow...

We face new issues

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Increasing complexity in flow of data

• Large number of data processing workflows
• Data is modified without stardardised trace
• Managing complexity of flows and scheduling becomes unmanagable


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Each data scientist has their own set of tools

• Some ♥ Tensorflow
• Some ♥ R
• Some ♥ Spark


### Some ♥ all of them

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Serving models becomes increasinly harder


• Different model versions running in different environments
• Deploying and reverting models gets increasingly complex

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When stuff goes wrong it's hard to trace back


• Data scientists say it's a bug in the pipelines
• Data engineers say it's something wrong in the models
• Becomes a cat-and-mouse game

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Luckily for us

Many fellow colleagues have faced these issues for a while

and an active problem that many people are trying to address

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Data Scientists

In charge of development of models

Data Engineers

In charge of development of data pipelines

DevOps / DataOps / MLOps Engineers

In charge of productionisation of models, data pipelines & products

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As your technical functions grow...

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So should your infrastructure

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EuroSciPy Talk 2018

MLOps / DataOps

a curated list of frameworks to scale
your machine learning capabilities

bit.ly/awesome-mlops

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2. The ML Principles

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The Institute for Ethical AI & ML

http://ethical.institute

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The moral-consciousness matrix

	Conscious	Unconscious
Moral	🤩	🤨
Immoral	👹	🤪

Moral === Wants to do good

Conscious === Knows how to

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IEML phased rollout plan

• Phase 1 - Responsible ML by pledge
  • For technologists to implement
    
    
• Phase 2 - Responsible ML by process
  • For technology leaders to introduce
    
    
• Phase 3 - Responsible ML by certification
  • For industries to raise the bar
    
    
• Phase 4 - Responsible ML by regulation
  • For economies to thrive

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Phase 1

Our 3 core streams

• The 8 Machine Learning Principles
• Open source contributions (i.e. MLOps List)
• The Ethical ML Network of technologists

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The 8 ML Principles

ethical.institute/principles.html

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1. Human augmentation

Assess impact of incorrect predictions

and design with human-in-the-loop review

where reasonable

• Sentence prediction
• Fraud detection
• Temporary augmentation

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2. Bias evaluation

Non-trivial decisions have inherent societal bias. We should identify, document bias and implications

• Data bias
• Feature importance
• Equity vs Equality

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3. Explainable by design

Explainability through domain knowledge, together with feature importance analysis

• Accuracy-explainability tradeoff
• Modularisation of elements
• Domain knowledge as features

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4. Reproducible systems

Abstracting computations to improve reproducibility in development and production

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5. Displacement strategy

Identifying and documenting impact of technology towards workers being displaced

• Reducing impact
• Jevons paradox
• Business change strategies

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6. Practical accuracy

Taking a pragmatic approach towards accuracy and cost metrics

• Going beyond accuracy
• Domain specific metrics
• In development and production

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7. Trust beyond the user

Build processes to use and protect user data & privacy, and make sure they are communicated

• Privacy at the right level
• Metadata via personal data
• Communicating when reasonable

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8. Data Risk Awareness

Develop processes and infrastructure to ensure data and model security are taken into consideration

• Security breaches due to human error
• Adversarial attacks
• Social engineering new processes

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Join the Ethical ML Network

ethical.institute#network

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Next steps

Applying this thinking into your actual projects

#LetsDoThis

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3. Wrapping up

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A practical framework for Responsible ML

Motivations

Overview of Institute

Responsible AI Framework

Next steps!

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The ML Principles

ethical.institute/principles.html

Awesome MLOps List

bit.ly/awesome-mlops

Thank you

Questions? a@ethical.institute