Editorial
Analysis and observations from Spektor on the governance, adoption and critical thinking of artificial intelligence. These texts are written here first, not content pulled in from other channels.
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Consent collected for a diagnosis does not authorise training an algorithm
A class action in the United States accuses Tempus AI of using genetic data collected for diagnosis to train artificial intelligence models and for commercial agreements with the pharmaceutical industry, without new consent. The case concerns any organisation considering reusing data collected for one purpose.
Raffaella Aghemo
Who decides whether a system is "high-risk" does not just look at the code
The European Commission has published draft guidelines on classifying high-risk AI systems. The most relevant point is not technical: it concerns how an organisation describes its systems, wherever it does so.
Raffaella Aghemo