EU AI Act: How AI regulation could affect your startup
Summary
Here, solutions such as social scoring by governments, the use of subliminal techniques, and most live biometric identification systems used for law enforcement in public spaces will be banned outright, The “high-risk” category includes recruiting tools that analyse creditworthiness or use biometric identification in private settings; all of these are subject to strict monitoring and auditing. Finally, “low”, “limited”, or “minimal” risk applications, such as spam filters, will be largely unaffected, beyond the need for making users aware that they’re interacting with a machine rather than a person. • None Fairness: AI should be used in a way that complies with existing laws, such as GDPR, and must not discriminate against individuals or create unfair commercial outcomes. • None Contestability and redress: People need to have clear routes to dispute harmful outcomes of decisions generated by AI. As illustrated by the five points above, in most cases the answer to compliance lies in following good data governance and privacy practices.