Putting ethical principles at the core of the research lifecycle
Purpose of the ethical charter
It has been well documented that machine learning research and applications can potentially lead to “data privacy issues, algorithmic biases, automation risks and malicious uses” (NeurIPS 2021 ethics guidelines). The purpose of this short document is to formalize the ethical principles that we (the multimodal learning group at Hugging Face) adopt for the project we are pursuing. By defining these ethical principles at the beginning of the project, we make them