Keeping Humans in the AI Loop
I spent this week in Lithuania attending a conference for compliance officers in Eastern Europe, and this being Europe, of course that meant artificial intelligence and data privacy were all over the agenda. So it’s rather poetic that European regulators also just published fresh guidance on human oversight of automated decision-making systems. The guidance was released last month by the European Data Protection Supervisor , which acts as the EU’s independent data protection authority — and more recently, also as one of the lead agencies responsible for enforcing the EU AI Act. As part of that mission, the EDPS releases guidance on privacy and AI issues that other regulators and corporations alike can consider. Why care about this specific piece of guidance? Because automated decision-making systems are regulated by both the EU General Data Protection Regulation ( Article 22 ) and the EU AI Act ( Article 14 ); and those same regulatory demands for human ove...