AI Ethics at SAP

Unit 5: Assessing the Risk of AI Use Cases

Assessing the risk of AI use cases
Overview

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Red line cases

1. Personal Freedom 2. Society 3. Environment

Human surveillance Manipulation Environmental harm

Human surveillance that is utilized for For deception or unfair manipulation of AI system development or deployment
targeting individuals or groups, either by individuals or groups via public forums, shall be conducted with minimum to no
biometrics, facial recognition, or other media, or moderation of other similar explicit damage to the environment.
identifiable features, with the purpose of uses.
disregarding or abusing the rights of the
Undermine debate
individuals or groups.
Systems which undermine human
Discrimination debate or democratic electoral systems.
Purposes which cause individuals or
Harmful impacts
groups to be discriminated against or
Intentionally harmful impacts on users
excluded from equal access to AI’s
and/or those directly and indirectly
benefits and opportunities to the wider
affected by the system.
population.
De-anonymization
De-anonymization of already
anonymized data which may result in the
identification of individuals or groups.

If the use case touches any of these red lines, it violates the AI ethics policy and further development is prohibited.

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High risk cases

1. Processing 2. Processing 3. Negatively 4. Automated 5. High risk sector

personal data protected personal affected individuals decision-making
data

Does the use case Does the use case Could the use case Does the use case Does the use case
process any include the processing negatively affect the exhibit fully or belong to one of the
information relating to of protected personal well-being (health and partially automated following sectors:
an identified or data (“special safety) of individuals decision-making employment/HR,
identifiable natural categories of personal or intrude on/restrict (including cases of healthcare, law
person for training data”) like information an individual’s no human enforcement?
purposes or during on sexual orientation, fundamental intervention and of
productive usage religion, biometric data rights/freedom? human supervision,
(excluding anonymized (including face but excluding
data and process of imaging)? recommender
anonymizing)? systems)?

If the answer is Yes to question 1 and at least one of the questions 2-5, steering committee approval is necessary.

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High risk cases

Process for Use Case Owners:

1. Send an email to the AI Ethics Office with the use case details.
2. The AI Ethics Office will perform due diligence and will contact the use case owner/project manager with additional
assets and recommendations.
3. The AI Ethics Office will include the use case in the upcoming steering committee meeting or will invite to an ad-hoc
meeting. The use case owner will be invited to present the use case.
4. The steering committee will provide binding guidance on the use case, which will be captured in the meeting
minutes for record-keeping.

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Use Case Owner: Use Case Owner: AI Ethics Office: Use Case Owner: Steering
Check risk Use case Due diligence Presentation of use Committee:
description case Binding guidance
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Standard cases

Process for Use Case Owners:

1. Check your use case for compliance with SAP’s Global AI Ethics Policy.
2. Document details about applicable policy requirements and how they are implemented throughout the AI Factory
process.
3. Save the use case details in a file you can access easily.

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Use Case Owner: Use Case Owner: Use Case Owner: Use Case Owner:
Check risk Check compliance Document use case Save use case details

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Key takeaways of the course

In this course, you have learned

▪ Why AI ethics is important and how it is applied at SAP
▪ How SAP’s AI ethics policy steers AI development,
deployment, use, and sale at SAP
▪ How SAP’s AI ethics policy is integrated into SAP’s AI
development process
▪ How the risk of AI use cases is assessed at SAP

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