School of Computer Science and Statistics
Dave Lewis The EU data governance act provides for independent data intermediaries [1], and this allows for more democratic control over collections of shared personal data, e.g. from clinical trials or smart cities, to support new research and innovation activities. Setting these rules in collaboration with other users in order to share understanding of risks may help … Read more
The massive step up in how Large Language Model can generate convincing and often accurate content based on simple prompts has come as an unanticipated challenge to itching and learning in universities. While the reaction to date has focussed on how to address the risks of LLM being used for plagiarism, less focus has been … Read more
The EU is considering adding a requirement to the forthcoming AI Act for AI developers to undertake an impact assessment on new AI projects to assess their potential impact on health, safety, fundamental rights and the environment. However, the state of the art in anticipating impacts from AI is still in its infancy [1] so … Read more
The emergence of generative foundational large language models has put the focus on the responsible use of these models by others. New forms of open source licenses for AI models have emerged that aim to encourage responsible use of AI [1], including conformance to the obligations in high risk application that will be regulated under … Read more
The emerging EU AI Act call for risk assessment to be conducted for AI system in specific high risk applications and also for generative foundational AI systems that could be used in such applications. The AI Act and its supporting technical standards do not however provide guidance on how risk assessments from foundational model vendors … Read more
AI Researchers are increasingly called upon to imagine and mitigate the harms arising from future use of their research, e.g. when publishing papers to major conferences [1][2] and journals or seeking funding from bodies like the EU [3]. The more fundamental the AI research they work upon the more challenging it is to imagine and … Read more