Newsletter Digest - Bonus Episode on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence tools have the potential to bring new opportunities and enhance productivity across a variety of sectors and fields including the EU institutions. But, AI tools also present risks; for example, if misused, vulnerable people may be exploited. In this special episode of the Newsletter Digest, we explore the EDPS’ plans for AI and how to use it ethically and responsibly to safeguard the fundamental rights to privacy and data protection.

Our guest is Leonardo Cervera Navas, Secretary-General of the European Data Protection Supervisor.

0:00 - Introduction
1:02 - What does the AI Act mean for the EU, for the EDPS and its role?
4:51 - How new roles of the EDPS are carried out in practice?
7:11 - The EDPS' AI Preparedness Strategy and its three pillars: governance, risk management and supervision
12:10 - How do AI Act correspondents contribute to cultivating a strong collaboration between all EU institutions, and also the EDPS?
15:53 - What duties and tasks would derive from this mission, concretely for the AI Act Correspondent?
18:18 - What is the role of the network?
21:30 - Your personal view on how we ensure our functions under the AI Act?
25:20 - Can EU AI Act become a global standard, in the same way that the GDPR is considered a gold standard?
26:55 - Which ethical principles we should agree upon?
28:43 - The EDPS' initiatives on AI and how to help EUIs embrace this tool and systems as well as prepare for the possible risks it entails
31:20 - What contingency plans does the AI Act have, and who would bear responsibility of those risks?
32:20 - EDPS' Technology and Privacy unit work on AI and its research projects and workshops
33:30 - Wrap up
36:00 - Outro and see you soon!