Principles-Based Ethics Assurance (PRAISE)

The principles are justice, beneficence, non-maleficence, and respect for human autonomy, with the principle of transparency playing a supporting role. 
 
PRAISE is based on a set of reusable argument templates (or patterns) for individual ethics assurance cases, by which engineers, developers, operators, or regulators could justify, communicate, or challenge a claim about the overall ethical acceptability of the use of a specific AI and autonomous system in a given socio-technical context. 

PRAISE considers overall ethical acceptability, and has a high threshold of ethical acceptability which is grounded in the notion of a social contract that gives equal respect and status to all affected stakeholders. For this reason, the PRAISE acronym is perhaps apt in that it points to what could be a ‘gold standard’ for ethics assurance. The underlying belief is that such an approach will help to ensure that the benefits from the development and deployment of  AI and autonomous systems are reaped by all.