REAIM 2023 – BetterBeliefs

The government of the Netherlands hosted the first global Summit on Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain: REAIM 2023.

REAIM 2023 was a platform for all stakeholders to discuss the key opportunities, challenges and risks associated with military applications of AI. The event was held on 15 and 16 February 2023 at the World Forum in The Hague.

Case Studies BetterBeliefs Platform @ REAIM Summit

RM1: Participatory Design at REAIM + Applying participatory methods to design complex military technologies ELSA Lab, TNO

Operationalising Responsible AI, UNIDIR

Responsible AI Symposium — Prioritizing Humanitarian AI as Part of ‘Responsible AI’, Lieber Institute, West Point

Official REAIM website.

Download instructions for using BetterBeliefs at REAIM 2023: slides, video and video transcript.

The Government of the Netherlands and South Korea are working together to plan the next REAIM Summit (date to be decided).

Listed in the OECD.AI Catalogue of Tools and Metrics for Trustworthy AI, BetterBeliefs is a participatory research platform for sharing and evaluating ideas, breaking down the silos between different stakeholders and using collective intelligence to build knowledge.

At REAIM 2023, BetterBeliefs provides an intuitive, interactive way for all participants to contribute and engage with ideas for the responsible use of AI in the military domain; as well as mechanisms to measure the degree of belief in these ideas as well as the quality of evidence for and against them.

Download step-by-step instructions (35 slides) [.pdf] or [.pptx] or the BetterBeliefs Handbook (24pp, A5) .pdf

Watch a video introduction (9:50min) [YouTube] and read a transcript of the video [.docx]

BetterBeliefs has been used in a similar forum: Ethical AI in Defence workshop 31 Jul to 1 Aug 2019, Canberra Australia, lead by Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), Plan Jericho Royal Australian Air Force and Trusted Autonomous Systems that led to the release of ‘A Method for Ethical AI in Defence’ DSTG Technical Report, 2021 [1].

Built by Australian university researchers, BetterBeliefs is a digital tool that improves the quality, integrity, and breadth of collective participatory data [2].

BetterBeliefs is working with Ethical, Legal and Societal Aspects (ELSA) Lab Defence Netherlands, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), the Center for Naval Analysis (CNA), the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at Reichman University Modern War Institute at Westpoint, West Point Lieber Institute, and the End of War Project to facilitate an online dialogue in REAIM breakout events on weaponised drones, operationalising AI principles and civilian harm.

The platform is GDPR compliant, and event data is accessible to all participants. There’s no app to download – BetterBeliefs is accessible through a browser on any device. Read our privacy policy.

The BetterBeliefs support team:

BetterBeliefs Support Team at REAIM 2023: L-R Saul Devitt, Kate Devitt & Alok Chowdhury

For more information and to find out how you can use BetterBeliefs at REAIM contact kate@betterbeliefs.com.au.

References:

[1]

Anand, A. & Deng, H. (2023). Towards Responsible AI in Defence: A Mapping and Comparative Analysis of AI Principles Adopted by States. UNIDIR. https://www.unidir.org/publication/towards-responsible-ai-defence-mapping-and-comparative-analysis-ai-principles-adopted

Roberson, T., Bornstein, S., Liivoja, R., Ng, S., Scholz, J., & Devitt, K. (2022). A Method for Ethical AI in Defence: A case study on developing trustworthy autonomous systems. Journal of Responsible Technology, 100036. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666659622000130

Devitt, S. K., & Copeland, D. (2022). Australia’s Approach to AI Governance in Security and Defence. In M. Raska, Z. Stanley-Lockman, & R. Bitzinger (Eds.), The AI Wave in Defence Innovation: Assessing Military Artificial Intelligence Strategies, Capabilities, and Trajectories. Routledge. https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01252

Gaetjens, D., Devitt, S. K., & Shanahan, C. (2021). Case Study: A Method for Ethical AI in Defence Applied to an Envisioned Tactical Command and Control System (DSTG-TR-3847). Defence Science & Technology Group. https://www.dst.defence.gov.au/publication/case-study-method-ethical-ai-defence-applied-envisioned-tactical-command-and-control

Lockman, Z. (2021). Responsible and Ethical Military AI Allies and Allied Perspectives: CSET Issue Brief. Centre for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, pp.21-22. https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/CSET-Responsible-and-Ethical-Military-AI.pdf

Devitt, S. K., Gan, M., Scholz, J., & Bolia, R. S. (2021). A Method for Ethical AI in Defence (DSTG-TR-3786). Defence Science & Technology Group. https://www.dst.defence.gov.au/publication/ethical-ai

Defence Science & Technology Group. (2019, 2 August). Ethical AI for Defence: World Experts Gather in Canberra. Department of Defence https://www.dst.defence.gov.au/news/2019/08/02/ethical-ai-defence-world-experts-gather-canberra

[2]

Pearce, T. R., Desouza, K., Wiewiora, A., Devitt, S. K., Mengersen, K., & Chowdhury, A. K. (2022). Debiasing Crowdsourcing and Collective Intelligence for Open Innovation with Novel Information System Affordances. 19th Conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS and the 14th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, Catanzaro. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/235920/

Devitt, S. K., Pearce, T. R., Chowdhury, A. K., & Mengersen, K. (2022). A Bayesian social platform for inclusive and evidence-based decision making. In M. Alfano, C. Klein, & J. de Ridder (Eds.), Social Virtue Epistemology. Routledge. https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06893