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Responsible AI: bridging from ethics to practice

Published: 26 July 2021 Publication History

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Recommendations for increasing the benefits of artificial intelligence technologies.

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Communications of the ACM  Volume 64, Issue 8
August 2021
116 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
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DOI:10.1145/3477555
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Published: 26 July 2021
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