Dave Lewis

tldr; you will develop a tool which will take some inputs (e.g. purpose, technology) describing the use of AI within an use-case, and will provide an output showing: risks in its use and potential impacts, as well as suggest measures to limit the risk (e.g. use specific tests, improve accuracy of outputs, make people aware). … Read more

Facial Recognition Technologies (FRT) utilise AI to detect and categorise people, often in real world situations where ‘errors’ can result in severe impact including imprisonment.  For example, a London Metropolitan Police’s facial recognition technology van misidentified Shaun Thompson, a 38 year old Black man who was then wrongfully accused and detained at London Bridge station. … Read more

Many bodies are considering how knowledge can be shared in an open manner while asserting some rules about how it can be used in the training of generative AI models by third parties. Approaches include denying permission to use open knowledge resources for AI training or to require trained models themselves to be made open … Read more

The EU’s AI Act brings a range of A- based products into the scope of EU product regulation. It places a set of risk management and monitoring requirements that expand EU health and safety and consumer protection legislation by expanding the scope to protect Fundamental Rights [1]. A major challenge is the lack of an … Read more

Organisations aiming to bring AI-based products onto the European Single Market must assess risks and compliance issues against a range of regulatory acts. While some legislation is supported by technical standards or codes of practice, organsiations increasingly have to track requirements from multiple  digital regulatory acts, e.g. the AI Act, GDPR, the Data Act, the … Read more

Publicly funded research and innovation (R&I) projects and international standards development are two forms of collaborative technical activities that aim to provide benefits to markets and society, and yet coordination between them is often poor. Such coordination is complicated as both R&I projects and standards development projects both operate over fixed lifecycles, such that for … Read more

The  EU AI Act calls for risk assessment to be conducted for AI systems in specific high risk applications and separately for systemic risks introduced by general-purpose AI (GPAI) systems (i.e. systems corresponding to the largest language models and their use as generative foundation models). The AI Act does not however provide guidance on how … Read more

AI Researchers are increasingly called upon to anticipate and mitigate the harms arising from future use of their research, e.g. when publishing papers to major conferences [1][2][3] and journals or seeking funding from bodies like the EU [4]. The earlier the stage the AI research they work upon, the more challenging it is to imagine … Read more