Scientific Data (Jul 2023)

FAIR for AI: An interdisciplinary and international community building perspective

  • E. A. Huerta,
  • Ben Blaiszik,
  • L. Catherine Brinson,
  • Kristofer E. Bouchard,
  • Daniel Diaz,
  • Caterina Doglioni,
  • Javier M. Duarte,
  • Murali Emani,
  • Ian Foster,
  • Geoffrey Fox,
  • Philip Harris,
  • Lukas Heinrich,
  • Shantenu Jha,
  • Daniel S. Katz,
  • Volodymyr Kindratenko,
  • Christine R. Kirkpatrick,
  • Kati Lassila-Perini,
  • Ravi K. Madduri,
  • Mark S. Neubauer,
  • Fotis E. Psomopoulos,
  • Avik Roy,
  • Oliver Rübel,
  • Zhizhen Zhao,
  • Ruike Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02298-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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A foundational set of findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) principles were proposed in 2016 as prerequisites for proper data management and stewardship, with the goal of enabling the reusability of scholarly data. The principles were also meant to apply to other digital assets, at a high level, and over time, the FAIR guiding principles have been re-interpreted or extended to include the software, tools, algorithms, and workflows that produce data. FAIR principles are now being adapted in the context of AI models and datasets. Here, we present the perspectives, vision, and experiences of researchers from different countries, disciplines, and backgrounds who are leading the definition and adoption of FAIR principles in their communities of practice, and discuss outcomes that may result from pursuing and incentivizing FAIR AI research. The material for this report builds on the FAIR for AI Workshop held at Argonne National Laboratory on June 7, 2022.