I always started with, “What is this system supposed to do?”
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/9-questions-to-ask-when-auditing-your-ai-systems/
9 questions to ask when auditing your AI systems
IT audits for systems of record data are an annual event at most companies. But auditing artificial intelligence and big data, while ensuring that they are under sufficient security and governance, is still a work in progress.
The good news is that companies already have a number of practices that they can apply to AI and big data. These practices are embodied in IT policies and procedures that can be adapted for both AI and big data. All are extremely helpful at a time when professional audit firms offer limited AI and big data services.
Here are nine questions and ways that companies can use to self-audit their AI and big data:
Even Harvard noticed?
https://hbr.org/2021/04/new-ai-regulations-are-coming-is-your-organization-ready
New AI Regulations Are Coming. Is Your Organization Ready?
Over the last few weeks, regulators and lawmakers around the world have made one thing clear: New laws will soon shape how companies use artificial intelligence (AI). In late March, the five largest federal financial regulators in the United States released a request for information on how banks use AI, signaling that new guidance is coming for the finance sector. Just a few weeks after that, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released an uncharacteristically bold set of guidelines on “truth, fairness, and equity” in AI — defining unfairness, and therefore the illegal use of AI, broadly as any act that “causes more harm than good.”
The European Commission followed suit on April 21 released its own proposal for the regulation of AI, which includes fines of up to 6% of a company’s annual revenues for noncompliance — fines that are higher than the historic penalties of up to 4% of global turnover that can be levied under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
(Related) ...but we will. No votes for developing policy.
Opinion: The United States can’t let other countries write AI policy for it
THE UNITED STATES sat by and watched five years ago as the European Union passed the General Data Protection Regulation, setting a standard for data privacy that has come to govern companies around the world. Now, the same thing appears to be happening with respect to artificial intelligence.
The E.U. last week revealed a detailed proposal of rules for AI — all of it. The aim is a noble one: ensure the next frontier in technological development is explored ethically, by furthering powerful tools’ positive uses and guarding against the insidious ways in which they are being and can be exploited.
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https://www.pogowasright.org/the-washington-privacy-act-goes-0-for-3/
The Washington Privacy Act goes 0 for 3
Jim Halpert and Samantha Kersul write:
For the third straight year, the Washington State Legislature missed an opportunity to pass a multi-rights general data privacy bill before it adjourned Sunday. The failure illustrates the difficulty of passing broad privacy legislation in an environment where both business and privacy and trial lawyer groups are well organized and influential and disagree about key issues.
Sponsor State Sen. Reuven Carlyle, D-Wash., introduced Senate Bill 5062, the Washington Privacy Act, early in the session, incorporating several changes advocated for by privacy groups and business groups. The net result was more demanding in several ways (for example, on loyalty programs and service provider obligations) than in a variant of the WPA enacted in Virginia this year. The bill also boosted funding for the attorney general’s office to enforce the bill but did not add a private right of action. The WPA passed the Senate by a bipartisan vote of 48 to 1 margin.
Read more on IAPP.
I didn’t know that Henry was a geek.
US, China Must Avoid 'All-Out' Artificial Intelligence War, Former US Diplomat Kissinger Tells Media
China and the United States must not spark a major tech race in artificial intelligence (AI), former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger warned in an interview with Die Welt this week, the South China Morning Post reported on Friday.
The former top official called on governments to block China's rise while maintaining peace between Beijing and Washington.
Interesting. If you don’t see “Make America Great Again,” you probably are working to, “Stop Grating America.”
https://www.bespacific.com/two-memos-with-enormous-constitutional-consequences/
Two Memos With Enormous Constitutional Consequences
The Atlantic – “What’s astonishing is that presidential criminal immunity has no grounding in actual law. It’s not in the Constitution or any federal statute, regulation, or judicial decision. It is not law at all.”
“One conclusion is apparent following Donald Trump’s four years in office: A sitting president is perhaps the only American who is not bound by criminal law, and thus not swayed by its disincentives. What’s astonishing is that this immunity has no grounding in actual law. It’s not in the Constitution or any federal statute, regulation, or judicial decision. It is not law at all. Instead, the ban on the indictment of a president rests on an internal personnel policy developed by the Department of Justice under two harangued presidents: Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. In essence, the policy directs federal prosecutors to stand down when it comes to criminally charging a president. This is a dangerous state of affairs, and Congress must eradicate this policy with legislation—and it must do so soon, in case Trump does run for another term. In the American system of separated powers, “Can the president do that?” is the wrong question. The right question is “If he does that, what’s the consequence?” The answer to the latter must lie in one or both of the other two branches: Congress, through impeachment and removal, or the federal judiciary, through indictment and trial. Impeachment and removal are clearly not working as a check on criminal abuses in the Oval Office. That leaves the courts. But courts can hear only cases brought to them; the federal criminal docket is exclusively populated by federal prosecutors. And their ultimate boss—the president, through the executive-branch chain of command—won’t let them bring cases against a sitting president. In effect, the DOJ memoranda excise the judicial branch from the work of addressing criminal conduct in the White House—with no clear constitutional authority to do so. (I explain this in detail in a recent law-review article – Kimberly L. Wehle, Law and the OLC’s Article II Immunity Memos, 32 Stan. L. & Pol’y Rev. 1 (2020))…”
Perspective.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-computers-are-getting-better-at-writing
The Computers Are Getting Better at Writing
Whatever field you are in, if it uses language, it is about to be transformed.
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