Orange has presented the creation of its Data and AI Ethics Council, composed of 11 leading figures in the field. Chaired by Stéphane Richard, Chairman and CEO of Orange, this advisory and independent body’s mission is to support the implementation by the company of ethical principles governing the use of data and Artificial Intelligence technologies.
The Council’s role is to intervene on a wide variety of subjects, such as ensuring that the AI-based systems developed by the Group have integrated principles of non-discrimination and fairness from the outset, or that they do not present risks of invasion of privacy when they analyze network data to detect the causes of a failure in the video service on the fiber. It is within this framework that this council will also be responsible for creating an ethical charter for the responsible use of data and AI at Orange, and for monitoring its implementation within the Group’s entities. It may be called upon by external figures, customer representatives or Orange employees to study concrete cases involving the ethics of data and AI, and will propose recommendations that will be submitted to the Orange Executive Committee for validation. It will also issue forward-looking opinions on the use of data and AI technologies within the Group.
The Orange Data and AI Ethics Council is made up of 11 personalities not affiliated with Orange, chosen for their independence and neutrality, their expertise on these subjects, as well as the diversity of their profiles: ethics specialists, lawyers, philosophers, researchers, professionals from public bodies, academia and the public and private economic sectors. We find Raja Chatila, Professor of AI, Robotics and Ethics at Sorbonne University; Lê Nguyên Hoang, Researcher and scientific mediator in computer science at EPFL, Switzerland; Caroline Lequesne-Roth, Teacher and Researcher at the University of Côte d’Azur; Sasha Rubel, International Expert in Responsible AI and Open Data; Cécile Dejoux, Professor at the Cnam; Etienne Klein, Director of the CEA Laboratory; Mark Hunyadi, Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Louvain; Claire Levallois Barth, Senior Lecturer in Law at Telecom Paris; Winston Maxwell, Director of Law Studies at Telecom Paris; Françoise Soulie-Fogelman, AI Consultant, former professor and start-up manager and Jean-Noël Lafargue, Senior Lecturer at the University of Paris 8.
The creation of the Data and AI Ethics Council is part of the brand’s desire to strengthen its ties of trust with its customers, employees and stakeholders in relation to ethics. In parallel to the creation of this council, the company has been conducting a research program for several years to contribute to the responsible development, use and governance of AI. Orange has also contributed to producing recommendations for a “Trusted AI Ethics” within the European Commission’s “High Level Expert Group” and supports the Impact AI collective.
Translated from Orange constitue un conseil consultatif d’éthique de la data et de l’IA composé d’experts
