General principles
Purpose: AI must enhance the capabilities of human beings, complementing them as much as possible, aiming to improve the quality of people´s life, facilitating processes and adding value to human activity.
General interest: AI-based solutions promoted by the State should tend to protect the general interest, guaranteeing inclusion and equity. For this, work must be carried out specifically to reduce the possibility of unwanted biases in the data and models used that may negatively impact people or favor discriminatory practices.
Respect for Human Rights: Any technological solution that uses AI must respect Human Rights, individual freedoms and diversity.
Transparency: AI solutions used in the public sphere must be transparent and comply with the regulations in force. This transparency must:
- Make available the algorithms and data used for training the solution and its implementation, as well as the tests and validations performed.
- Explicitly make visible, through active transparency mechanisms, all those processes that use AI, either in the generation of public services or in support of decision-making processes.
Responsibility: Technological solutions based on AI must have a clearly identifiable person responsible for the actions derived from the solution actions.
Ethics: When the application and / or development of AI-based solutions present ethical dilemmas, they must be addressed and resolved by human beings.
Added value: AI-based solutions should only be used when adding value to a process. AI should not be an end in itself, but a tool that can enhance the development of the digital government.
Privacy by design: AI solutions should contemplate people´s privacy from their design stage. Personal Data Protection principles in force in Uruguay are considered components of this document.
Security: AI developments must comply, from their design, with the basic principles of information security. The guidelines and regulations related to cybersecurity in force in Uruguay that apply to the development of AI are considered components of this document.