Fwd: Slides on technical implications for EU AI Act

FYI: quite interesting post in cogain which mentions "Personal Agents", and
also some references to Solid.

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Od: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
Date: út 11. 3. 2025 v 10:40
Subject: Slides on technical implications for EU AI Act
To: public-cogai <public-cogai@w3.org>


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>