Re: Slides on technical implications for EU AI Act

You need to wait for the upcoming Horizon calls to see what they expect ...

> On 13 Mar 2025, at 04:05, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Greetings Dave
> Thanks for sharing these slides, I am sharing them with the AI KR CG as they are relevant to our group
> 
> I have several concerns that I am not sure how to address, maybe you have suggestions?
> 
> Topmost concern is:
> The EU is funding AI projects that develop/support/include the Prohibited  systems
> They do so because highly skilled proponents mask the terminology/concept and fragementing the system design/logic
> Fundamentally, what many of the EU fu systems do is not explicit, and what is explicit is not what the systems do
> 
> This is apparent to me because I am a systems engineer, but it may not be apparent to the Commission, evaluators, projects officers
> who systematically cover up logical inconsistencies
> 
> I am not sure how to flag this without putting myself more at risk than I am already :-)
> Advice?
> 
> PDM
> 
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org <mailto:dsr@w3.org>> wrote:
>> I recently gave a talk commenting on technical implications for the EU AI Act.
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>>  https://www.w3.org/2025/eu-ai-act-raggett.pdf
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>> I cover AI agents and ecosystems of services on slide 8, anticipating the arrival of personal agents that retain personal information across many sessions, so that agents can help you with services based upon what the agent knows about you.  This could be implemented using a combination of retrieval augmented generation and personal databases, e.g. as envisaged by SOLID.
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>> See: https://www.w3.org/community/solid/ and https://solidproject.org <https://solidproject.org/>
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>> Personal agents will interact with other agents to fulfil your requests, e.g. arranging a vacation or booking a doctor’s appointment.  This involves ecosystems of specialist services, along with the means for personal agents to discover such services, the role of APIs for accessing them, and even the means to make payments on your behalf.
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>> There are lots of open questions such as:
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>> Where is the personal data held?
>> How much is shared with 3rd parties?
>> How to ensure open and fair ecosystems?
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>> My talk doesn’t summarise the AI Act as a colleague covered that. In short, the AI Act frames AI applications in terms of prohibited applications, high risk applications and low risk applications, setting out requirements for the latter two categories. See: https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/high-level-summary/
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>> Your thoughts on this are welcomed!
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>> Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org <mailto:dsr@w3.org>>
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Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>