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By Paulo Carvalho The discussion around Artificial Intelligence has entered a new phase. Over the past few years, governments and companies have focused much of their attention on models, chips, data centres, productivity and automation. But a new report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change places another element at the centre of the debate: the need to build AI assurance ecosystems as essential infrastructure for the safe and confident adoption of the technology. The paper’s...

By Paulo Carvalho Europe has decided to do something the rest of the world is still trying to avoid: to turn Artificial Intelligence into a governable technology. With the EU AI Act, the question is no longer simply “how do we use AI?” It has become much more demanding: how do we prove that AI was designed, tested, classified, supervised, documented, and monitored responsibly? This shift affects companies, governments, vendors, startups, consulting firms, financial institutions, healthtechs,...

Everything you need to know about the AI Act, for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the EU and beyond. The AI Act has a particular focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This group of stakeholders is mentioned 38 times in the Act compared to 7 mentions of ‘industry’ and 11 mentions of ‘civil society’. More importantly, the EU AI Act has a range of measures that are specifically designed to support and simplify SME compliance with the product safety rules of the AI Act....