Part 16: How Company Can Ensure Transparency For Their Use Of AI

According to certain data protection experts, data protection always requires it, the EU AI Act explicitly only does so in certain cases, and in "ethics" it is a basic requirement: transparency in the use of AI. But when and how must or should a company be transparent? In this part 16 of our AI blog series, we discuss the legal and ethical foundations of transparency - and a practical approach to ensuring it.

There are a number of reasons why transparency in the use of AI is required today. Transparency should allow those affected to be able to adapt to decisions and other results of AI, evaluate them and possibly even take action against them. Another reason, however, is undoubtedly the widespread uncertainty about what this technology can do and what it does to each and every one of us. In connection with its use, we feel a loss of control over the processing of our data and decisions made about us by others with the help of technology that many of us cannot begin