Position: We Need Responsible, Application-Driven (RAD) AI Research

Authors: Sarah Hartman, Cheng Soon Ong, Julia Powles, Petra Kuhnert

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Research Type Theoretical This position paper argues that achieving meaningful scientific and societal advances with artificial intelligence (AI) requires a responsible, application-driven approach (RAD) to AI research. ... We present the case for RAD-AI to drive research through a three-staged approach: (1) building transdisciplinary teams and people-centred studies; (2) addressing context-specific methods, ethical commitments, assumptions, and metrics; and (3) testing and sustaining efficacy through staged testbeds and a community of practice. We present a vision for the future of application-driven AI research...
Researcher Affiliation Academia 1CSIRO s Data61, Australia 2College of Systems and Society, Australian National University, Australia 3Tech & Policy Lab, Law School, University of Western Australia, Australia 4Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Correspondence to: Sarah Hartman <EMAIL>.
Pseudocode No The paper describes conceptual approaches and frameworks (e.g., 'A Three-staged Approach to RAD-AI') but does not contain any structured pseudocode or algorithm blocks.
Open Source Code No The paper discusses a conceptual framework for responsible AI research and does not describe a specific methodology for which source code would be released. There are no statements about code availability or links to repositories.
Open Datasets No The paper is a position paper outlining a framework for AI research and does not present experiments that use specific datasets. It does not provide any concrete access information (link, DOI, repository, or citation with author/year) for publicly available or open datasets.
Dataset Splits No The paper does not present experimental results or use specific datasets, therefore, it does not provide information on training/test/validation dataset splits.
Hardware Specification No This position paper does not describe any specific experiments or computational work, and therefore does not provide details about hardware specifications.
Software Dependencies No This position paper does not describe any specific experiments or computational work, and therefore does not provide details about software dependencies with version numbers.
Experiment Setup No This position paper outlines a conceptual framework for responsible AI research and does not present any specific experimental setup details, hyperparameters, or training configurations.