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Guidelines on tools for handling ethical issues in AI system life cycle

Scope

This document provides specification and guidelines for a set of tools (instruments, activities, procedures) for the practical handling of social and ethical concerns throughout AI systems life cycle: from the emergence of a new issue to the corresponding decision-making. This document offers a list of tools along a minimum set of requirements and guidance that enable organisations to put them into practice.
As a general principle, tools provided are independent from any concrete ethical foundation.
This document is applicable to all organisations, with any AI stakeholder role, including customers and users. However, it is primarily intended to assist AI systems producers and providers in practical handling of societal concerns and ethical considerations issues during the AI systems life cycle.
The document expands on existing standards about: guidance on addressing societal concerns and ethical considerations, AI system life cycle processes, AI system governance, management system, and impact assessment.