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(Main)Systems and software engineering — Life cycle management — Part 7000: Standard model process for addressing ethical concerns during system design
Systems and software engineering — Life cycle management — Part 7000: Standard model process for addressing ethical concerns during system design
The standard establishes a set of processes by which engineers and technologists can include consideration of ethical values throughout the stages of concept exploration and development, which encompass system initiation, analysis, and design. This standard provides engineers and technologists with an implementable process aligning innovation management processes, system design approaches, and software engineering methods to help address ethical concerns or risks during system design. IEEE Std 7000™ does not give specific guidance on the design of algorithms to apply ethical values such as fairness and privacy.
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Systems and software engineering —
Life cycle management —
Part 7000:
Standard model process for
addressing ethical concerns during
system design
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IEEE Std 7000™-2021
IEEE Standard Model Process
for Addressing Ethical Concerns
during System Design
Developed by the
Systems and Software Engineering Standards Committee
of the
IEEE Computer Society
Approved 16 June 2021
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Abstract: A set of processes by which organizations can include consideration of ethical values
throughout the stages of concept exploration and development is established by this standard.
Management and engineering in transparent communication with selected stakeholders for ethical
values elicitation and prioritization is supported by this standard, involving traceability of ethical
values through an operational concept, value propositions, and value dispositions in the system
design. Processes that provide for traceability of ethical values in the concept of operations, ethical
requirements, and ethical risk-based design are described in the standard. All sizes and types of
organizations using their own life cycle models are relevant to this standard.
Keywords: case for ethics, concept of operations, ethical value requirements, ethical values
elicitation, ethically aligned design, IEEE 7000™, software engineering, system engineering, value-
based requirements, value prioritization
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Participants
At the time this IEEE standard was completed, the Model Process for Addressing Ethical Concerns during
System Design Working Group had the following membership:
Ali Hessami, Chair
Sarah Spiekermann, Vice Chair
Zvikomborero Murahwi, Secretary
Annette Reilly, Technical Editor
Victoria Hailey Sridhar Raghavan
Lee Barford
James Beetem Ali Hossaini Randy Rannow
Jared Bielby Valery Karpov Dina Salah
Barbara Bohr Edmund Kienast Chris Santos-Lang
Noah Brodbeck Vlada Leushina Robert Schaaf
Jennifer Costley Ruth Lewis Sam Sciacca
Brandt Dainow Gerri Light Giuseppe Spampinato
Feyzan Dalay Carol Long Ozlem Ulgen
Colleen Dorsey Emile Mardacany Mark Underwood
Andrey Fajardo Jacob Metcalf Altaz Valani
Tony Gillespie Rod Muttram Michelle Victor
Lewis Gray Alexander Novotny Gisele Waters
Beiyuan Guo Freddy Pirajan Till Winkler
The IEEE 7000 Working Group acknowledges the contributions of John C. Havens.
The following members of the individual Standards Association balloting group voted on this standard.
Balloters may have voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention.
M.Victoria Alonso Ali Hessami Annette Reilly
Amelia Andersdotter Werner Hoelzl Maximilian Riegel
Bakul Banerjee Piotr Karocki Pablo Rivas Perea
Robert Schaaf
Lee Barford Stuart Kerry
Lyria Bennett Moses Edmund Kienast Daniel Schiff
Barbara Bohr Dwayne Knirk Matthew Silveira
Juris Borzovs Ansgar Koene Gary Smullin
Pieter Botman Susan Land Sarah Spiekermann
Gustavo Brunello Kenneth Lang Wayne Stec
Lyle Bullock Sean Laroque-Doherty Robert Stemp
Paul Cardinal Ruth Lewis Walter Struppler
Diego Chiozzi Xiaoru Li Gerald Stueve
Raul Colcher Lars Luenenburger David Tepen
Javier Luiso Ozlem Ulgen
Jennifer Costley
Jan de Liefde Emile Mardacany John Vergis
Ronald Dean Johnny Marques David Walden
Robert Donaldson Rajesh Murthy Kenneth Wallace
Hassan El Shazly Laura Musikanski Lei Wang
Kenneth Foster Alan Mustafa Gisele Waters
David Fuschi Alexander Novotny Eleanor Watson
Lewis Gray Joanna Olszewska Till Winkler
Louis Gullo Mark Paulk Forrest Wright
Beiyuan Guo Christopher Petrola Yu Yuan
James Pratt Oren Yuen
Tamas Haidegger
Victoria Hailey Randy Rannow Janusz Zalewski
John C. Havens Daidi Zhong
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When the IEEE SA Standards Board approved this standard on 16 June 2021, it had the following membership:
Gary Hoffman, Chair
Jon Walter Rosdahl, Vice Chair
John D. Kulick, Past Chair
Konstantinos Karachalios, Secretary
Edward A. Addy Howard Li Mehmet Ulema
Doug Edwards Daozhuang Lin Lei Wang
Ramy Ahmed Fathy Kevin Lu F. Keith Waters
J.Travis Griffith Daleep C. Mohla Karl Weber
Thomas Koshy Chenhui Niu Sha Wei
Joseph L. Koepfinger* Damir Novosel Howard Wolfman
David J. Law Annette Reilly Daidi Zhong
Dorothy Stanley
*Member Emeritus
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Introduction
This introduction is not part of IEEE Std 7000™-2021, IEEE Standard Model Process for Addressing Ethical Concerns
during System Design.
Organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the need to demonstrate socially responsible behavior when
dealing with stakeholders, customers, regulators, and society in general. Socially responsible organizations
recognize that their decisions and actions affect not just their financial bottom line but also society and the
environment. One of the principles of social responsibility is ethical behavior.
Engineers, their managers, and other stakeholders benefit from well-defined processes for considering ethical
issues along with the usual concerns of system performance and functionality early in the system life cycle.
Consumers can be unaware of the ethical considerations regarding the products and services they use; it is only
by rigorously examining ethical concerns that manufacturers, engineers, and technologists can align products
and services with the results valued by acquirers, consumers, and users.
This standard aims to support organizations in creating ethical value through system design. Creating ethical
value is a vision for organizations that recognizes their central role in society as shapers of well-being and
carriers of societal progress that benefits humanity. Implementing IEEE Std 7000 can help them to strengthen
their value proposition and avoid value harms. It is applicable to all kinds of products and services, including
artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
IEEE Std 7000 is recommended for use by organizations engaged in concept exploration, requirements
definition, or development of new or revised products or services. The standard requires consideration of
values relevant to the culture where the system is to be deployed. It is applicable with any life cycle model or
development methodology. IEEE Std 7000 is designed to work for all sizes and types of organizations (e.g.,
large, small, for profit, non-profit) aiming to deliver products that enable the ethical values of their customers
and their own organization. The standard can help organizations to build better products with a more refined
and nuanced value proposition and with less risk. This standard can be more easily applied in the context of
organizational policies that are consistent with the organization’s ethical values, such as the following:
— Readiness to include a wide group of stakeholders in the engineering effort
— An open, transparent, and inclusive project culture
— A commitment to quality
— A dedication to ethical values from the top of the organization
— A commitment to allocate sufficient time and resources for ethical requirements definition
IEEE Std 7000 is most effectively applied when organizational leaders and top management are involved in
and assume responsibility for the products and services created. Through key roles defined for IEEE Std 7000
project teams, this standard seeks to help align management and engineering activities with stakeholder
expectations for ethical values in the operational concept, value propositions, and design features being
developed.
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Contents
1. Overview . 12
1.1 Scope . 12
1.2 Purpose . 12
1.3 Applicability and constraints . 12
1.4 Process overview . 14
1.5 Word usage . 15
2. Normative references . 16
3. Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations . 16
3.1 Definitions . 16
3.2 Acronyms and abbreviations . 24
4. Conformance . 24
5. Key concepts and application . 25
5.1 General application. 25
5.2 Specified context of use . 25
5.3 The Organization . 26
5.4 Stakeholders . 27
5.5 Human values . 28
5.6 Ethical theories used to elicit values . 30
5.7 Stages and processes . 31
6. Key roles in Ethical Value Engineering Project teams . 32
6.1 General . 32
6.2 Role descriptions . 32
6.3 Team competency . 35
7. Concept of Operations (ConOps) and Context Exploration Process . 35
7.1 Purpose of the Process . 35
7.2 Outcomes. 36
7.3 Activities and tasks . 36
7.4 Inputs . 38
7.5 Outputs . 39
8. Ethical Values Elicitation and Prioritization Process . 39
8.1 Purpose of the Process .
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IEEE Std 7000™-2021
IEEE Standard Model Process
for Addressing Ethical Concerns
during System Design
Developed by the
Systems and Software Engineering Standards Committee
of the
IEEE Computer Society
Approved 16 June 2021
IEEE SA Standards Board
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Abstract: A set of processes by which organizations can include consideration of ethical values
throughout the stages of concept exploration and development is established by this standard.
Management and engineering in transparent communication with selected stakeholders for ethical
values elicitation and prioritization is supported by this standard, involving traceability of ethical
values through an operational concept, value propositions, and value dispositions in the system
design. Processes that provide for traceability of ethical values in the concept of operations, ethical
requirements, and ethical risk-based design are described in the standard. All sizes and types of
organizations using their own life cycle models are relevant to this standard.
Keywords: case for ethics, concept of operations, ethical value requirements, ethical values
elicitation, ethically aligned design, IEEE 7000™, software engineering, system engineering, value-
based requirements, value prioritization
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Participants
At the time this IEEE standard was completed, the Model Process for Addressing Ethical Concerns during
System Design Working Group had the following membership:
Ali Hessami, Chair
Sarah Spiekermann, Vice Chair
Zvikomborero Murahwi, Secretary
Annette Reilly, Technical Editor
Victoria Hailey Sridhar Raghavan
Lee Barford
James Beetem Ali Hossaini Randy Rannow
Jared Bielby Valery Karpov Dina Salah
Barbara Bohr Edmund Kienast Chris Santos-Lang
Noah Brodbeck Vlada Leushina Robert Schaaf
Jennifer Costley Ruth Lewis Sam Sciacca
Brandt Dainow Gerri Light Giuseppe Spampinato
Feyzan Dalay Carol Long Ozlem Ulgen
Colleen Dorsey Emile Mardacany Mark Underwood
Andrey Fajardo Jacob Metcalf Altaz Valani
Tony Gillespie Rod Muttram Michelle Victor
Lewis Gray Alexander Novotny Gisele Waters
Beiyuan Guo Freddy Pirajan Till Winkler
The IEEE 7000 Working Group acknowledges the contributions of John C. Havens.
The following members of the individual Standards Association balloting group voted on this standard.
Balloters may have voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention.
M.Victoria Alonso Ali Hessami Annette Reilly
Amelia Andersdotter Werner Hoelzl Maximilian Riegel
Bakul Banerjee Piotr Karocki Pablo Rivas Perea
Robert Schaaf
Lee Barford Stuart Kerry
Lyria Bennett Moses Edmund Kienast Daniel Schiff
Barbara Bohr Dwayne Knirk Matthew Silveira
Juris Borzovs Ansgar Koene Gary Smullin
Pieter Botman Susan Land Sarah Spiekermann
Gustavo Brunello Kenneth Lang Wayne Stec
Lyle Bullock Sean Laroque-Doherty Robert Stemp
Paul Cardinal Ruth Lewis Walter Struppler
Diego Chiozzi Xiaoru Li Gerald Stueve
Raul Colcher Lars Luenenburger David Tepen
Javier Luiso Ozlem Ulgen
Jennifer Costley
Jan de Liefde Emile Mardacany John Vergis
Ronald Dean Johnny Marques David Walden
Robert Donaldson Rajesh Murthy Kenneth Wallace
Hassan El Shazly Laura Musikanski Lei Wang
Kenneth Foster Alan Mustafa Gisele Waters
David Fuschi Alexander Novotny Eleanor Watson
Lewis Gray Joanna Olszewska Till Winkler
Louis Gullo Mark Paulk Forrest Wright
Beiyuan Guo Christopher Petrola Yu Yuan
James Pratt Oren Yuen
Tamas Haidegger
Victoria Hailey Randy Rannow Janusz Zalewski
John C. Havens Daidi Zhong
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When the IEEE SA Standards Board approved this standard on 16 June 2021, it had the following membership:
Gary Hoffman, Chair
Jon Walter Rosdahl, Vice Chair
John D. Kulick, Past Chair
Konstantinos Karachalios, Secretary
Edward A. Addy Howard Li Mehmet Ulema
Doug Edwards Daozhuang Lin Lei Wang
Ramy Ahmed Fathy Kevin Lu F. Keith Waters
J.Travis Griffith Daleep C. Mohla Karl Weber
Thomas Koshy Chenhui Niu Sha Wei
Joseph L. Koepfinger* Damir Novosel Howard Wolfman
David J. Law Annette Reilly Daidi Zhong
Dorothy Stanley
*Member Emeritus
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Introduction
This introduction is not part of IEEE Std 7000™-2021, IEEE Standard Model Process for Addressing Ethical Concerns
during System Design.
Organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the need to demonstrate socially responsible behavior when
dealing with stakeholders, customers, regulators, and society in general. Socially responsible organizations
recognize that their decisions and actions affect not just their financial bottom line but also society and the
environment. One of the principles of social responsibility is ethical behavior.
Engineers, their managers, and other stakeholders benefit from well-defined processes for considering ethical
issues along with the usual concerns of system performance and functionality early in the system life cycle.
Consumers can be unaware of the ethical considerations regarding the products and services they use; it is only
by rigorously examining ethical concerns that manufacturers, engineers, and technologists can align products
and services with the results valued by acquirers, consumers, and users.
This standard aims to support organizations in creating ethical value through system design. Creating ethical
value is a vision for organizations that recognizes their central role in society as shapers of well-being and
carriers of societal progress that benefits humanity. Implementing IEEE Std 7000 can help them to strengthen
their value proposition and avoid value harms. It is applicable to all kinds of products and services, including
artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
IEEE Std 7000 is recommended for use by organizations engaged in concept exploration, requirements
definition, or development of new or revised products or services. The standard requires consideration of
values relevant to the culture where the system is to be deployed. It is applicable with any life cycle model or
development methodology. IEEE Std 7000 is designed to work for all sizes and types of organizations (e.g.,
large, small, for profit, non-profit) aiming to deliver products that enable the ethical values of their customers
and their own organization. The standard can help organizations to build better products with a more refined
and nuanced value proposition and with less risk. This standard can be more easily applied in the context of
organizational policies that are consistent with the organization’s ethical values, such as the following:
— Readiness to include a wide group of stakeholders in the engineering effort
— An open, transparent, and inclusive project culture
— A commitment to quality
— A dedication to ethical values from the top of the organization
— A commitment to allocate sufficient time and resources for ethical requirements definition
IEEE Std 7000 is most effectively applied when organizational leaders and top management are involved in
and assume responsibility for the products and services created. Through key roles defined for IEEE Std 7000
project teams, this standard seeks to help align management and engineering activities with stakeholder
expectations for ethical values in the operational concept, value propositions, and design features being
developed.
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Contents
1. Overview . 12
1.1 Scope . 12
1.2 Purpose . 12
1.3 Applicability and constraints . 12
1.4 Process overview . 14
1.5 Word usage . 15
2. Normative references . 16
3. Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations . 16
3.1 Definitions . 16
3.2 Acronyms and abbreviations . 24
4. Conformance . 24
5. Key concepts and application . 25
5.1 General application. 25
5.2 Specified context of use . 25
5.3 The Organization . 26
5.4 Stakeholders . 27
5.5 Human values . 28
5.6 Ethical theories used to elicit values . 30
5.7 Stages and processes . 31
6. Key roles in Ethical Value Engineering Project teams . 32
6.1 General . 32
6.2 Role descriptions .
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