With two recent publications, regulatory bodies on both
Luxembourg and EU levels give AI developers and AI users ample
material to digest—and act upon.
In December 2018, two papers about AI were published. One, by
the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on Artificial
Intelligence, is a draft of ethical guidelines for trustworthy
AI. By February 2019, more than 500 comments had been submitted
regarding these guidelines, reflecting the AI community's
enormous interest in them. The other, by the CSSF, is a white paper about opportunities, risks, and
recommendations regarding AI.
Although the papers take slightly different directions—the
CSSF paper focuses on AI use cases, inherent risks, and
opportunities while the European Commission's regards the
trustworthiness of AI systems—they conceptually share a few
common denominators. They both: