JAAG aims to:

• Raise awareness about how modern decision-making systems (rule-, algorithm- and AI-based-systems) are being used, and their potential for unjust and harmful effects on individuals

• Advocate for all these systems to be guided by ethical and regulatory frameworks, standards and protocols, in all aspects of their development, implementation, and use

• Help develop and put into operation a best practice protocol for all organisations that use these systems

• Help promote a professional body for commissioners, designers, auditors, and users of rule-based systems and algorithm enabled systems

• Work together with others to create a movement for beneficial change, initially in the United Kingdom

Values and Principles

JAAG’s fundamental values are: peace, equality, simplicity, truth, integrity and sustainability.

• We operate in ways that reflect our values.

• We are a membership organisation; we depend on volunteer effort, supplemented by some paid specialist input.

• We are an Action Group: we seek impactful outcomes.

• We seek better technology, better technical approaches, and better standards so that systems can be conceived, developed, constructed, operated, maintained, and finally decommissioned in an ethical manner.

• We seek alliances with likeminded organisations; we do not have a monopoly on ethical approaches.