Ethics Innovation
Ethics is our
innovation.
We develop practical solutions to complex problems to help you address ethics requirements and implement ethics best practices.
We focus on transparency and accountability to develop a human-centred tailored approach. We help you maximise ethical opportunities while minimising risk, resulting in practical Ethical AI solutions. Regardless of whether you’re a startup, a larger company, or a public sector organisation, we are here to help.
Benefits
Expert support
Access to specialists whose expertise exceed the market standard.
Tailored advice
Receive information and inputs already adapted to your business practices and data profile.
Practical inputs
Information you can use immediately. You’ll know what to do and how to do it.
Building trust
By demonstrating your commitment to the ethical use of AI, you build trust among your customers.
Service Portfolio
Data Ethics Support
Bias and discrimination in AI can occur in several dimensions of data and cloud services, such as the setting of business objectives, training data, bias in algorithms, and bias in the interpretation of the results. To mitigate bias at each phase, and to promote fairness and equality, it is important that the relevant data collection, data use, data interpretation and data ethics issues are considered at the outset and throughout the data analytics process.
Our innovative Our 7-step approach reviews your systems and processes to identify relevant ethical risks and potential mitigation measures to ensure your systems maximise the ethical use of data from end-to-end.
Explainable AI (XAI) Service
Users must be able to understand how and why an algorithm produces its output. We offer two solutions, which can help you:
Option 1: We guide your design of XAI methods to align with your organisation’s strategy, values, responsibilities, and objectives. This service identifies which XAI approach (e.g., feature importance, sensitivity, contrastive method, saliency maps) promotes your objectives and your users’ needs.
Option 2: We will perform a detailed technical breakdown of model performance that assesses the performance, transparency, justifiability and accountability of your algorithms. This service generates a report of quantitative metrics and indicators that will offer a transparent explanation of how the system came to its output.
Ethics Compliance Audit
We will assess and guide your organisation’s compliance with ethics frameworks, standards, and regulations. We will provide concrete, actionable steps to align your product and organisation with regulation and standards.
The frameworks with which we can help your organisation align include:
- UK GOV’s Data Ethics Framework
- UK GOV’s Algorithmic Transparency Standard
- EU AI Act
- EU Ethical Guidelines for Trustworthy AI
- UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
- NATO Principles of Responsible Use of AI in Defence
Ethics Assessments
AI tools can be used to promote societal values and individual rights, or to impact them negatively. We assess the full ethical impact, including ethical risks and opportunities of your organisation’s product, service or research and development. We evaluate them according to:
- Ethical and societal values
- Human and fundamental rights
- Implicit and explicit bias in data, models and operation of the tool
- Non-discrimination of gender, sex, age, ability, worldview, race, ethnicity
- The potential for harm
- Potential burdens on vulnerable groups or individuals
- Societal acceptability
- Environmental sustainability
Ethics Roadmap
Spanning 12 months and including monthly meetings and “drop-ins”, our ethics experts will work with you to provide an “ethics roadmap” to implement ethical values and an ethics-driven strategy. The deep dives are designed flexibly to meet the needs of your organisation and include monitoring, reporting and evaluation.
We can adjust the scope of this service to budgetary requirements in the form of shorter “Ethics Sprints”. We will assist you in:
- Implementing ethical transformation across all, or individual components of, your products and service(s)
- Assessing the policy, legal and ethics options for your digital agenda.
- Identifying and implementing the appropriate organisational, legal, and technical risk-mitigating measures.
Ethics Awareness Training
To successfully address questions of ethics that arise within your organisation or with the provision of a product, service or programme, you need employees who are aware of ethical values, issues and questions.
We offer a single or a series of ethics awareness training events for your entire organisation or for particular teams. The training sessions are designed flexibly based on your objectives and requirements. Each training is designed to:
- Communicate the relevance of ethics to the details and context of your organisation.
- Facilitate the uptake of ethical use of data.
- Build compliance with ethical AI frameworks and regulations.
Technology is not value-neutral. Through our range of services, we help you identify what these values are, help you build an organisation focused on ethics, and guide you to create and use technology in an ethical way.
We can work with you to cover ‘business as usual’ ethics issues – such as data ethics, sustainable processes and diversity in hiring – as well as complex or specialist areas, such as digital policing, safeguarding, migration, pandemic response, human security, or border security.
Bias and discrimination in AI can occur in several dimensions of data and cloud services, such as the setting of business objectives, training data, bias in algorithms, and bias in the interpretation of the results. To mitigate bias at each phase, and to promote fairness and equality, it is important that the relevant data collection, data use, data interpretation and data ethics issues are considered at the outset and throughout the data analytics process.
Our innovative Our 7-step approach reviews your systems and processes to identify relevant ethical risks and potential mitigation measures to ensure your systems maximise the ethical use of data from end-to-end.
Users must be able to understand how and why an algorithm produces its output. We offer two solutions, which can help you:
Option 1: We guide your design of XAI methods to align with your organisation’s strategy, values, responsibilities, and objectives. This service identifies which XAI approach (e.g., feature importance, sensitivity, contrastive method, saliency maps) promotes your objectives and your users’ needs.
Option 2: We will perform a detailed technical breakdown of model performance that assesses the performance, transparency, justifiability and accountability of your algorithms. This service generates a report of quantitative metrics and indicators that will offer a transparent explanation of how the system came to its output.
We will assess and guide your organisation’s compliance with ethics frameworks, standards, and regulations. We will provide concrete, actionable steps to align your product and organisation with regulation and standards.
The frameworks with which we can help your organisation align include:
- UK GOV’s Data Ethics Framework
- UK GOV’s Algorithmic Transparency Standard
- EU AI Act
- EU Ethical Guidelines for Trustworthy AI
- UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
- NATO Principles of Responsible Use of AI in Defence
AI tools can be used to promote societal values and individual rights, or to impact them negatively. We assess the full ethical impact, including ethical risks and opportunities of your organisation’s product, service or research and development. We evaluate them according to:
- Ethical and societal values
- Human and fundamental rights
- Implicit and explicit bias in data, models and operation of the tool
- Non-discrimination of gender, sex, age, ability, worldview, race, ethnicity
- The potential for harm
- Potential burdens on vulnerable groups or individuals
- Societal acceptability
- Environmental sustainability
Spanning 12 months and including monthly meetings and “drop-ins”, our ethics experts will work with you to provide an “ethics roadmap” to implement ethical values and an ethics-driven strategy. The deep dives are designed flexibly to meet the needs of your organisation and include monitoring, reporting and evaluation.
We can adjust the scope of this service to budgetary requirements in the form of shorter “Ethics Sprints”. We will assist you in:
- Implementing ethical transformation across all, or individual components of, your products and service(s)
- Assessing the policy, legal and ethics options for your digital agenda.
- Identifying and implementing the appropriate organisational, legal, and technical risk-mitigating measures.
To successfully address questions of ethics that arise within your organisation or with the provision of a product, service or programme, you need employees who are aware of ethical values, issues and questions.
We offer a single or a series of ethics awareness training events for your entire organisation or for particular teams. The training sessions are designed flexibly based on your objectives and requirements. Each training is designed to:
- Communicate the relevance of ethics to the details and context of your organisation.
- Facilitate the uptake of ethical use of data.
- Build compliance with ethical AI frameworks and regulations.
Why Trilateral Research?
Our ethics experts hold PhDs in applied ethics and have 15+ years of experience operationalising ethics.
Our team combines expert knowledge across the humanities, social science, computer science and data science.
We see opportunities in change and have the courage and initiative to embrace them.
We treat our colleagues and clients as we would like to be treated.
Latest Insights
What does the ethics of technology mean?
Unleashing the Power of AI: Explainability and Transparency are the Keys to Promote Ethics, Trust and Inclusion in Digital Policing
Human intervention and human oversight in the GDPR and AI Act
Customers
Success Stories
Kevin Flanagan
CEO, CO-opts
You helped us understand that ethics is a dynamic balancing act between good and bad outcomes and taught us how to fashion the tools to walk that tightrope
Superintendent
West Midlands Police
Trilateral were commissioned by the National Data Analytics Solution (NDAS) to produce an independent academic evaluation of our Modern Slavery use-case… providing commentary on, amongst other things, the precision and recall rate of our tool along with essential ethical considerations... I found Trilateral to be professional, knowledgeable and supportive… [and they] provided the insight we needed to move the project forwards.
Alan Gooden
Liaison Officer, Association of Document Validation Professionals
