Z-Inspection®: A process to assess trustworthy AI
The Process
Z-Inspection® is a process to assess trustworthy AI in practice.
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The Z-Inspection® process has the potential to play a key role in the context of the new EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulation.
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Z-Inspection® is listed in the OECD Catalogue of AI Tools & Metrics
How to Assess Trustworthy AI in Practice.
After several years of applied research work, we produced two full reports containing the lessons we have learned and a list of practical suggestions:
Cite as: arXiv:2206.09887 [cs.CY]. [v2] Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:23:47 UTC (465 KB)
The full report is available on arXiv.
You can download the full report as .PDF
– Lessons Learned from Assessing Trustworthy AI in Practice.
Digital Society (DSO), 2, 35 (2023). Springer
Z-Inspection®: A Process to Assess Trustworthy AI
Roberto V. Zicari, John Brodersen, James Brusseau, Boris Düdder, Timo Eichhorn, Todor Ivanov, Georgios Kararigas , Pedro Kringen, Melissa McCullough, Florian Möslein, Karsten Tolle, Jesmin Jahan Tithi, Naveed Mushtaq, Gemma Roig , Norman Stürtz, Irmhild van Halem, Magnus Westerlund.
IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society,
VOL. 2, NO. 2, JUNE 2021
Print ISSN: 2637-6415
Online ISSN: 2637-6415
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TTS.2021.3066209
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Assessing Trustworthy AI in times of COVID-19.
Deep Learning for predicting a multi-regional score conveying the degree of lung compromise in COVID-19 patients.
The AI system aims to help radiologists to estimate and communicate the severity of damage in a patient’s lung from Chest X-rays. It has been experimentally deployed in the radiology department of the Public Hospital (ASST Spedali Civili) in Brescia (Italy) since December 2020 during pandemic time.
In cooperation with Department of Information Engineering and Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences, and Public Health – University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society
* Publication Date: DECEMBER 2022 * Volume: 3, Issue: 4 * On Page(s): 272-289
* Print ISSN: 2637-6415 * Online ISSN: 2637-6415
* Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TTS.2022.3195114
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Co-design of Trustworthy AI. Best Practice.
Co-Design of a Trustworthy AI System in Healthcare: Deep Learning Based Skin Lesion Classifier.
Roberto V. Zicari, Sheraz Ahmed, Julia Amann, Stephan Alexander Braun, John Brodersen, Frédérick Bruneault, James Brusseau, Erik Campano, Megan Coffee, Andreas Dengel, Boris Düdder, Alessio Gallucci, Thomas Krendl Gilbert, Philippe Gottfrois, Emmanuel Goffi, Christoffer Bjerre Haase, Thilo Hagendorff, Eleanore Hickman, Elisabeth Hildt, Sune Holm, Pedro Kringen, Ulrich Kühne, Adriano Lucieri, Vince I. Madai, Pedro A. Moreno-Sánchez, Oriana Medlicott, Matiss Ozols, Eberhard Schnebel, Andy Spezzatti, Jesmin Jahan Tithi, Steven Umbrello, Dennis Vetter, Holger Volland, Magnus Westerlund and Renee Wurth.
Front. Hum. Dyn. |Human and Artificial Collaboration for Medical Best Practices, July 13, 2021
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Assessing Trustworthy AI. Best Practice.
On Assessing Trustworthy AI in Healthcare. Machine Learning as a Supportive Tool to Recognize Cardiac Arrest in Emergency Calls
Roberto V. Zicari • James Brusseau • Stig Nikolaj Blomberg • Helle Collatz Christensen • Megan Coffee • Marianna B. Ganapini • Sara Gerke • Thomas Krendl Gilbert • Eleanore Hickman • Elisabeth Hildt • Sune Holm • Ulrich Kühne • Vince I. Madai • Walter Osika • Andy Spezzatti • Eberhard Schnebel • Jesmin Jahan Tithi • Dennis Vetter • Magnus Westerlund • Renee Wurth • Julia Amann • Vegard Antun • Valentina Beretta • Frédérick Bruneault • Erik Campano • Boris Düdder • Alessio Gallucci • Emmanuel Goffi • Christoffer Bjerre Haase • Thilo Hagendorff • Pedro Kringen • Florian Möslein • Davi Ottenheimer • Matiss Ozols • Laura Palazzani • Martin Petrin • Karin Tafur • Jim Tørresen • Holger Volland • Georgios Kararigas
Front. Hum. Dyn., Human and Artificial Collaboration for Medical Best Practices, 08 July 2021 |
Pilot Project: Assessment for Responsible Artificial Intelligence together with Rijks ICT Gilde -Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK)- and the province of Fryslân (The Netherlands)
” The results of this pilot are of great importance for the entire Dutch government, because we have developed a best practice with which administrators can really get started, and actually incorporate ethical values into the algorithms used.”
— Rijks ICT Gilde -Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in more and more aspects of our lives. The technology – based on algorithms and data – is in numerous devices and can be useful in solving social issues. For example, about energy, sustainability or poverty. As a government, we have an exemplary role. If we want to seize the opportunities of AI, then important questions about ethics, technology, transparency and the possible effects of AI applications on our society must be answered.
The pilot “Assessment for Responsible AI” is a step in this process. During a six-months pilot, the Rijks ICT Gilde (Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK)), in cooperation with the province of Fryslân and a team of experts of the Z-Inspection® Initiative lead by Prof. Zicari, investigated a deep learning algorithm in practice.
👉 Download the full project report: Lessons Learned in Performing a Trustworthy AI and Fundamental Rights Assessment
Pilot Project: Assessing Trustworthiness of the use of Generative AI for higher Education.
This pilot project of the Z-inspection® initiative aims at assessing the use of Generative AI in higher level education considering specific use cases.
For this pilot project, we will assess the ethical, technical, domain-specific (i.e. education) and legal implications of the use of Generative AI-product/service within the university context.
We follow the UNESCO guidance for policymakers on Generative AI and education. In particular the policy recommendation: Pilot testing, monitoring and evaluation, and building an evidence base.
Participants
– Members of the Z-inspection® initiative
– Ministries and Universities
– Specialized agencies
– Others
Approach
An interdisciplinary team of experts will assess the trustworthiness of Generative AI for selected use cases in High Education using the Z-Inspection® process.
Co-Design of a Trustworthy AI System in Healthcare: An Interpretable and Explainable Polygenic Risk Score AI Tool to Predict Type 2 Diabetes using Genome Data.
The polygenic risk score (PRS) is an important method for assessing genetic susceptibility to traits and diseases. Significant progress has been made in applying PRS to conditions such as obesity, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. Studies have demonstrated that PRS can effectively identify individuals at high risk, enabling early screening, personalized treatment, and targeted interventions.
One of the current limitations of PRS, however, is a lack of interpretability tools. To address this problem, at team of researchers at the Graduate School of Data Science at the Seoul National University introduced eXplainable PRS (XPRS), an interpretation and visualization tool that decomposes PRSs into genes/regions and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) contribution scores via Shapley additive explanations (SHAPs), which provide insights into specific genes and SNPs that significantly contribute to the PRS of an individual.
In this best practice we use a co-design approach to help various stakeholders to embed ethics across the whole span of the design and implementation process of the XPRS system design and implementation. For that, we use Z-inspection® an ethically aligned Trustworthy AI co-design methodology.
World Z-inspection® Conferences.
These interdisciplinary meetings welcomed over 180 international scientist and experts from AI, ethics, human rights and domains like healthcare, ecology, business or law.
👉 Third World Z-inspection® Conference in Seoul, May 20, 21, 2025
👉 Second World Z-inspection® Conference, Friday, August 23 and Saturday, August 24, 2024 Hamburg, Germany
👉 First World Z-inspection® Conference. Ateneo Veneto, March 10-11, 2023, Venice, Italy.
Successfully completed Third World Z-inspection® Conference in Seoul, May 20, 21, 2025
/in General, News /by Roberto Zicari