The innovation, opportunities and potential value to society of AI will not need emphasising to anyone reading this guidance.
Nor is there a need to underline the range of risks involved in the use of technologies that shift processing of personal data to complex computer systems with often opaque approaches and algorithms.
The Information Commissioner’s Officer has produced guidance to help organisations mitigate the risks specifically arising from a data protection perspective, explaining how data protection principles apply to AI projects without losing sight of the benefits such projects can deliver.
Aspects of the guidance should act as an aide memoire to those running AI projects.
