Canadian Hosted Ethical AI
CanTrust has adopted the Nextcloud Ethical AI rating system. As a supporter of Open Source and clear policy, we have a responsibility to protect and inform users.
Ethical AI Rating Levels
What is ethical AI? How is it rated under the Nextcloud system?
The Nextcloud rating system is based on these factors for a particular integration of AI in Nextcloud:
- Is the Software for referencing, reasoning, and training, Open Source?
- Is the LLM freely available for self hosting?
- Is the training data available to use, and is it free?
All of these points are met: Green 🟢
None are met: Red 🔴
1 condition is met: Orange 🟠
2 conditions are met: Yellow 🟡
No AI 🧠
Additional Note about Rating AI from Nextcloud
“We add one additional note to the rating: bias. As it is impractical to prove there is no bias, we merely point out if, at time of our last check, major biases (like discrimination on race or gender for a face recognition technology for example) were discovered in the data set or in the expression of the model.
There are other ethical considerations for AI, of course. There are legal challenges around the used data sets (in particular, copyright) and the energy usage of especially deep neural networks is of great concern. However, unfortunately, those concerns are extremely hard to quantify in an objective manner and while we intend to try to warn users of any open issues, we can not (yet) include them in our rating.
For that reason, we recommend users to investigate for themselves what the consequences of the use of AI are for their individual case using the Nextcloud Ethical AI Rating.”
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