Meta’s Open Loop is launching a new policy prototyping project in India intended to guide and enable startups to implement the AI principle of human centricity in a way that accounts for local and regional cultural factors with an emphasis on stakeholder engagement.  

The program will follow the policy prototyping methodology developed by Open loop. The Open Loop consortium will test a framework and operational guidance for identifying and incorporating community voices and accounting for local realities across the AI system lifecycle with companies in India.  

Open Loop intends to produce a report with policy recommendations based on the experience of participants in receiving, handling and implementing the policy prototype while testing its clarity, effectiveness and actionability.  

The policy prototyping program consists of a framework that features high-level focus areas that can be used by companies to implement AI principles at the organizational level and across the development lifecycle of the AI system. It also provides operational guidance for the principle of ‘human-centric AI’ that provides examples as to how the principle of human-centric AI can be implemented as per the framework.  

Thirdly, the framework consists of prototype tasks that companies will go through to implement the framework and operational guidance. These tasks will focus on developing a strategy for stakeholder engagement and incorporating context when contextualizing the AI principle.  

The Open Loop program is intended to guide companies in undertaking meaningful stakeholder engagement throughout the implementation of a principle across the AI system lifecycle. It will ensure that AI systems account for the context they are deployed in.  

The program will aid companies in identifying areas of risk and the pressure points across the AI system lifecycle that can be improved or addressed as per identified values. It will also raise awareness of the socio-technical impact of AI systems. 

Meta is collaborating with industry partners from India, Indian governmental entities, academicians and other non-governmental organizations for the Open Loop program. Laura Galindo-Romero is the policy manager at Meta for this program. 

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