This book is written for software product teams that use AI to add intelligent models to their products or are planning to use it. As AI adoption grows, it is becoming important that all AI driven products can demonstrate they are not introducing any bias to the AI-based decisions they are making, as well as reducing any pre-existing bias or discrimination.

The responsibility to ensure that the AI models are ethical and make responsible decisions does not lie with the data scientists alone. The product owners and the business analysts are as important in ensuring bias-free AI as the data scientists on the team. This book addresses the part that these roles play in building a fair, explainable and accountable model, along with ensuring model and data privacy. Each chapter covers the fundamentals for the topic and then goes deep into the subject matter – providing the details that enable the business analysts and the data scientists to implement these fundamentals.

AI research is one of the most active and growing areas of computer science and statistics. This book includes an overview of the many techniques that draw from the research or are created by combining different research outputs. Some of the techniques from relevant and popular libraries are covered, but deliberately not drawn very heavily from as they are already well documented, and new research is likely to replace some of it.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Fairness and Proxy Features

Chapter 3: Bias in Data

Chapter 4: Explainability

Chapter 5: Remove Bias from ML Model

Chapter 6: Remove Bias from ML Output

Chapter 7: Accountability in Al

Chapter 8: Data and Model Privacy

Chapter 9: Conclusion

About the Authors

Sray Agarwal has applied AI and analytics from Financial Services to Hospitality and has led the development of Responsible AI framework for one of the largest banks in the UK. A well-known industry expert with expertise in Predictive Modelling, Forecasting and advanced Machine Learning with profound knowledge of algorithms and advanced statistic, Sray is an Associate Director of Data Science and Analytics at Publicis Sapient, the digital business transformation company. He is an active blogger and has given his talks on Ethical AI at major AI conferences across the globe. His contribution to the development of the technology was recognised by Microsoft when he won the Most Valued Professional in AI award in 2020.

Shashin Mishra, a senior technology leader, Shashin Mishra has built transformational AI products across industry verticals. In his current role, he is a Director of Data Science and Analytics at Publicis Sapient, the digital business transformation company. Prior to Publicis Sapient, Shashin co-founded an IOT start up to perform real time power distribution grid monitoring and was recognised as the Most Promising Entrepreneur of India in 2009. His current areas of interest are building Responsible Algorithms and the role of Regulators in the future of AI. Shashin lives with his wife and their two children in London, UK.