Ms Marianne Cassidy:

Deputy O’Rourke will be familiar with the EU AI Act as one of the parameter of risk from prohibited use to high-risk use. The requirements relating to each of these are much aligned to the risk. There is an acceptance in the EU that there is no risk-free AI. The guidelines state that the risks involved have to be considered. There is a need to help public servants to weigh the risks relating to data governance and ensuring that there is human oversight in making the decision on whether to deploy AI in the first instance or to do something else in the context of service provision. There is already quite a bit of use of lower level AI and what would be classified in the EU AI Act as minimal risk in the context of robotic automation. The latter is generally unregulated. As it moves up to limited risk, there are some transparency obligations. That is reflected in the guidelines across the canvas for the user to identify whether they are a deployer or a provider and what kind of risk level their system falls under.