Good reflexes regarding datagovernance and aigovernance, what to expect from the upcoming legislation and how to prepare, those were some of the topics discussed during our panel on the EU draft AIAct and the DataAct at the Flanders AI Forum 2023.
A few additional thoughts:
“Data/AI isn�t our core business�?
Every business involves data & can benefit from good data governance, and every business can benefit from using AI tools (or machinelearning or applied statistics, however you wish to call them) if it carefully considers the ethical and legal angles.
�Data is for the DPO� and “AI is for IT”?
Good data governance requires involvement of all levels and roles, as does good AI governance.
�No budget for a GDPR-like whale of a project�?
Good reflexes through data protection efforts make both AI and data governance more cost-effective. privacy is just one angle among many, but if you took the GDPR even a little bit into account, it was an excuse to strengthen communication between different stakeholders and to create interdisciplinary processes. You won’t (and shouldn’t) leverage your “personal data” documentation for non-personal data and AI, but everything that you did right and wrong when preparing for GDPR is a valuable lesson from which to draw inspiration – and that in turn makes a good data or AI governance project less expensive.
And yes, some lawyers have experience helping with that too!
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