Information Governance in the AI age
On 3 May 2024, the OECD and partner countries released the updated AI Principles, which include five recommendations for policymakers. The updates respond to recent developments in AI and the rapidly evolving risks associated with newer technologies such as generative AI and foundation models. The 5 values-based principles are: Inclusive growth, […]
The U.S. National Security Agency’s Artificial Intelligence Security Center (NSA AISC) has published the joint Cybersecurity Information on Deploying AI Systems Securely in collaboration with CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD ACSC), the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS), the New Zealand […]
The UK Government has released a guide to support organisations to better understand how AI assurance techniques can be used to ensure the safe and responsible development and deployment of AI systems. As the guide explains this requires ‘a multi-disciplinary and socio-technical approach to ensure that human values and ethical considerations are […]
In January 2024, NIST published a report on AI security titled, ‘Adversarial Machine Learning: A Taxonomy and Terminology of Attacks and Mitigations’ which was authored by Apostol Vassilev (NIST), Alina Oprea (Northeastern University), Alie Fordyce (Robust Intelligence), Hyrum Anderson (Robust Intelligence). The publication develops a taxonomy of concepts and defines terminology in the field of adversarial machine […]
Two days before the Bletchley Declaration on 30 October 2023 , U.S President, Joe Biden, issued his first Executive Order on the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of AI stating that his Administration ‘places the highest urgency on governing the development and use of AI safely and responsibly, […]
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office and The Alan Turing Institute have released a guidance to provide practical advice to organisations to help explain the processes, services and decisions delivered or assisted by AI, to the individuals affected by them. The guidance consists of three parts. Depending on your level of expertise, and […]
Last month we brought you the UK Government’s White Paper released on 29 March 2023, to implement a pro-innovation approach to AI regulation and the EU’s AI Act with Tom Whittaker’s flowchart to assist in navigating the proposed EU AI. Tom Whittaker of Burgess Salmon (UK) has developed a further flowchart […]
Tom Whittaker of Burges Salmon UK has developed a flowchart to assist navigating the new EU AI Act. This new act is is extra-territorial and the obligations (and risk of penalties + enforcement) still arise where certain legal entities are based outside of the EU. Originally posted here
The UK Government released on 29 March a White Paper setting out plans for implement a pro-innovation approach to AI regulation. The intention is not to introduce AI legislation ‘too early’ and relies on collaboration between government, business and empowering regulators to take the lead. The principles to guide regulator […]
In collaboration with the private and public sectors, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a framework to better manage risks to individuals, organisations, and society associated with artificial intelligence (AI). The NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) is intended for voluntary […]
The UK Government has put forward proposals on the future regulation of Artificial Intelligence, to help develop consistent rules to promote innovation and protect the public. It comes as the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is introduced to Parliament which will transform the UK’s data laws to boost innovation […]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet stressed the urgent need for a moratorium on the sale and use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems that pose a serious risk to human rights until adequate safeguards are put in place. She also called for AI applications that cannot be used […]
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) have supported the call on the European Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation on the use of artificial intelligence technologies but expressed concern by the exclusion of international law enforcement cooperation from the scope of the proposal. The EDPB and […]
