The Call for AI Ethics is a doc­u­ment signed by the Pon­tif­i­cal Acad­e­my for Life, Microsoft, IBM, FAO and the Min­istry of Inno­va­tion, a part of the Ital­ian Gov­ern­ment in Rome on Feb­ru­ary 28th 2020 to pro­mote an eth­i­cal approach to arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence. The idea behind it is to pro­mote a sense of shared respon­si­bil­i­ty among inter­na­tion­al orga­ni­za­tions, gov­ern­ments, insti­tu­tions and the pri­vate sec­tor in an effort to cre­ate a future in which dig­i­tal inno­va­tion and tech­no­log­i­cal progress grant mankind its cen­tral­i­ty. Point­ing to a new algo­rethics, the sig­na­to­ries com­mit­ted to request the devel­op­ment of an arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence that serves every per­son and human­i­ty as a whole; that respects the dig­ni­ty of the human per­son, so that every indi­vid­ual can ben­e­fit from the advances of tech­nol­o­gy; and that does not have as its sole goal greater prof­it or the grad­ual replace­ment of peo­ple in the workplace.

The Rome Call for AI Ethics com­pris­es 3 impact areas and 6 prin­ci­ples.