The EU AI Act introduces a requirement for organisations to ensure AI literacy, and the clock is ticking for putting measures in place. But there are a lot of myths and misconceptions about what that really means. In this blog post, we tackle the five biggest myths we’ve come across. The main takeaways? Your organisation is caught by this requirement, you don’t have long to put your measures in place, and this is not just…
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can, inadvertently, give rise to issues relating to data protection compliance and equality law. However, used properly, it also provides a unique opportunity to combat implicit systematic discrimination. The new EU AI Act supports such an optimistic approach towards AI. Discrimination through non-automated processes In the public discourse on AI and the associated risks of discrimination, it is often overlooked that human decisions could be unconsciously based on non-objective…
In Brief The long-awaited EU AI Act was published in the Official Journal of the European Union today, 12 July 2024. The Act regulates activities across the AI lifecycle, as covered in more detail in our previous post, and the countdown for implementation has now started for companies developing or deploying AI technologies, with the Act entering into force 20 days after its publication on 1 August 2024. The Act as a whole is generally…