Re: Slides on technical implications for EU AI Act

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> wrote:

> I recently gave a talk commenting on technical implications for the EU AI
> Act.
>
> https://www.w3.org/2025/eu-ai-act-raggett.pdf
>
> 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.
>
> See: https://www.w3.org/community/solid/ and https://solidproject.org
>
> 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.
>
> There are lots of open questions such as:
>
>
>    - Where is the personal data held?
>    - How much is shared with 3rd parties?
>    - How to ensure open and fair ecosystems?
>
>
> 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/
>
> Your thoughts on this are welcomed!
>
> Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
>
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