Since 2023, MIT Sloan Management Review has published debates around the responsible use of AI (RAI). The debates were based on specific questions or statements raised to a panel of experts, who were asked to express and explain their dis/agreement with the question or statement (from strongly disagree to strongly agree). Our CEO and co-founder, Dr. Richard Benjamins, has participated in all those debates. This series of blog posts gathers his responses to the 14 debates held on RAI.

All blog posts in the series have the same structure. The title is the question, followed by the rate of dis/agreement, and the brief text is the position of Richard. Responses were limited to 1200 characters, so the posts are short.

This is the fourth post in the series.

Responsible AI should be a part of the top management agenda (e.g., one of a small list of named strategic priorities, or a regular agenda item for leadership team meetings).

AGREE

Companies that make extensive use of artificial intelligence, either for internal use or for offering products to the market, should put Responsible AI on their top management agenda. For such companies it is important to monitor -on a continuous basis- the potential social and ethical impacts of the systems that use AI on people or societies.

For new use cases or products, such companies should use a methodology like Responsible AI by Design that considers the ethical and social impact of the application on people and societies throughout the application or product lifecycle. Potential issues detected in this process should be mitigated, or, if not possible, prevented from putting into production.

The full debate is available here.