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Compliance with the European Artificial Intelligence Act - Regulation (EU) 2024/1689
Following the rapid spread of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based technologies, on 12 July 2024 the European Union adopted a regulation (no. 1689/2024), known as European Artificial Intelligence Act, or EU AI Act for short, with the aim of regulating the sector and prevent the improper use of AI technologies from an ethical and social point of view, with the aim of preventing abuses by those who use them and preventing the most disturbing scenarios dreaded in so many science fiction films and novels from the past few decades.
Some of these technologies, in particular facial/biometric recognition technologies and people profiling technologies, have been considered at risk of infringing citizens' rights, and the EU regulation aims to ensure that the use of AI systems within the EU is safe, transparent and non-discriminatory.
The new EU AI Act will be enforced within two years (i.e. on 12 July 2026) and it is advisable that any company or institution using AI technologies performs the appropriate internal checks to ensure that they are not considered to be at risk according to the EU regulation. Companies should take the appropriate countermeasures in due time and put in place suitable security protocols.
HCE, in partnership with the law firm ZMC, can offer the necessary technical-legal assistance and consultancy to ensure that the use of AI by its customers (in their internal and external production processes, in their relations with their staff, with their suppliers, with their customers, both on-line and off-line) is in line with the requirements of European Regulation No. 1689/2024.
Thanks to the combined experience and interdisciplinary expertise of the staff of HCE and ZMC (which includes computer scientists, lawyers, sociologists and philosophers), it is thus possible to provide a wide range of services useful for operating safely with AI, including:
1) Analysis and cataloguing of corporate use of AI;
2) Identification of high-risk AI technologies and implementation of a corporate protocol for their management;
3) Registration of high-risk or potentially high-risk AI technologies with the competent authority;
4) Analysis of data sources used for AI training, to check that the personal data used are statistically representative of the sample concerned and do not produce results that are discriminatory or non-compliant with current directives;
5) Monitoring of the compliance status of the solutions adopted, periodic checks on regulatory compliance as it evolves;
6) Ethical analysis of the AI use strategy to assess that it is compatible with the company's code of ethics.
2) Identification of high-risk AI technologies and implementation of a corporate protocol for their management;
3) Registration of high-risk or potentially high-risk AI technologies with the competent authority;
4) Analysis of data sources used for AI training, to check that the personal data used are statistically representative of the sample concerned and do not produce results that are discriminatory or non-compliant with current directives;
5) Monitoring of the compliance status of the solutions adopted, periodic checks on regulatory compliance as it evolves;
6) Ethical analysis of the AI use strategy to assess that it is compatible with the company's code of ethics.
The HCE and ZMC staff are available for an initial introductory meeting, completely free of charge, to provide more information and a cost estimate.
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