Responsible AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming much more prevalent in the business landscape, as an increasing number of workers actively pursue AI tools to enhance their productivity. As such, it is more critical than ever that AI technology is designed, implemented, and used responsibly.
Understanding responsible AI
AI technology is revolutionizing the way we learn, innovate, and work. Yet, this transformative power carries a profound responsibility. Technology companies must prioritize the ethical development, deployment, and usage of AI to ensure a positive impact on our society.
This is where responsible AI steps in, serving as a guiding principle in navigating the dynamic landscape of technology. By emphasizing responsible practices, technology leaders can mold AI into a force for good, proactively addressing potential ethical concerns, fostering fairness, and ensuring that the benefits of AI are accessible to everyone.
What is responsible AI?
Responsible AI is an approach to the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure it’s used in a safe, trustworthy, and ethical way. By adopting responsible AI practices, tech companies strive to enhance transparency and proactively reduce issues like AI bias, ultimately fostering a positive societal impact.
AI bias refers to the presence of unfair and prejudiced outcomes in artificial intelligence based on algorithms that reflect human biases. These biases can negatively affect individuals from minority groups and can be extremely problematic. Responsible AI ensures that AI software is centered around human values, making it interpretable and explainable.
Responsible AI encompasses a list of principles, that may differ from organization to organization. Microsoft and Google, for example, each adhere to their unique set of principles, reflecting their ethical commitments in the development and deployment of AI.
Microsoft’s commitment to responsible AI
Businesses worldwide depend on Microsoft and have confidence in their product offerings. Consequently, the introduction of its AI products is expected to pique the interest of and encourage adoption within the business landscape.
Microsoft’s commitment to responsible AI is guided by a set of principles. Microsoft follows its own responsible AI framework that has been crafted to guarantee that the utilization of its AI technology aligns with ethical standards and delivers exceptional responses to challenging problems without causing any unintended negative impacts.
Microsoft’s six principles of responsible AI:
Fairness – Microsoft AI systems are designed with quality of service, availability of resources, and a minimization of the potential for stereotyping based on demographics, culture, or other factors.
Reliability and safety – Microsoft AI systems are developed in a way that is consistent with Microsoft’s design ideas, values, and principles so as to not create harm in the world.
Privacy and security – With an increased reliance on data to develop and train AI systems, Microsoft has established requirements to ensure that data is not leaked or disclosed.
Inclusiveness – Microsoft’s AI systems should empower and engage communities around the world, and to do this, Microsoft partners with underserved minority communities to plan, test, and build AI systems.
Transparency – People who create AI systems should be open about how and why they are using AI, and open about the limitations of the system. Additionally, everyone must understand the behavior of AI systems.
Accountability – Everyone is accountable for how technology impacts the world. For Microsoft, this means they are consistently enacting their principles and taking them into account in everything that they do.
Ground-breaking AI for SMBs
Microsoft is committed to using responsible AI in all of its AI-powered features, including Copilot for Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Microsoft 365 Chat.
As of January 16th, 2024, Microsoft announced that Copilot for Microsoft 365 was available for business users to purchase with no minimum seat requirements with all qualifying licenses. To get started with Copilot for Microsoft 365, you will need to activate and purchase the add-on plan and have one of the following licensing prerequisites:
- Microsoft 365 Business Standard
- Microsoft 365 Business Premium
- Microsoft 365 E5
- Microsoft 365 E3
- Office 365 E3
- Office 365 E5
- Microsoft 365 A5 for faculty
- Microsoft 365 A3 for faculty
- Office 365 A5 for faculty
- Office 365 A3 for faculty
Copilot for Microsoft 365, the cutting-edge AI product from Microsoft, is built using Microsoft’s comprehensive approach: Security + Compliance + Privacy + Responsible AI and is designed to completely revolutionize how we work.
Embracing AI holds the key to securing a prosperous future for U.S. SMBs and unlocking the full potential of our workforce. The age of workplace AI is upon us, and falling behind is a risk we cannot afford to take.
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Please note: If your company is looking to be one of the first SMBs to implement Microsoft 365 Copilot, it is essential your organization requests our Readiness Assessment. Our Copilot for Microsoft 365 readiness assessment is an evaluation of your organization’s readiness to adopt Microsoft’s new AI solution for 365, Copilot. This will enable you to take full advantage of Copilot’s capabilities.
