TAS Regulatory Workshops
TAS-hub ran a series of workshops on AI and regulation with the main purpose of bringing stakeholders from academia, industry and government to examine cross-sector regulation challenges and produce recommendations.
1st TAS AI Regulation Workshop – May 22, 2023 at Goodenough College
This workshop was attended by academics and regulators. We had a great presence of regulators from NCSC, National Highways, DSIT/Office for AI, HSE, Ofcom, and CMA who presented short talks on AI regulatory issues in their line of work. The main takeaways were:
– Regulators need cross-collaboration and cross-regulation advising to solve the biggest problems
– There is a need for more evidence-gathering and case studies
– Communication beyond policy is important for public understanding
2nd TAS AI Regulation Workshop – November 14, 2023 at Goodenough College
Prepared in partnership with TAS Governance Node, this workshop aimed to discuss the challenges, opportunities and risks of AI regulation in different sectors. Regulator, as well as, academics presented their case studies and then spent the remainder of the time in world café discussions. The main takeaways were:
- it is incredibly difficult to look at AI regulation across
- the difference between regulating AI on products versus services or markets
- different sectors have different appetites for AI regulation and different pressing issues
- the term “safety-critical systems” means different things to different regulators in terms of the risk of harm
The organisers synthesised key issues from notes and wrote up a 15-page academic article and submitted this to a conference.
