ADM+S WORKING PAPER SERIES - What Role for Standards and Assurance in Regulating Artificial

The text of the Act was initially proposed by the European Commission in April 2021, and both the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament have issued proposed amendments over the past year. [...] At the point of adoption (or rejection) of a standard, the Commission is limited to considering whether the standards correspond with the standards request, but this generally involves an examination of matters of form rather than substance.31 And having drafted the essential requirements of the AI Act at a high level of generality (on the assumption that standards will provide the detail and cert. [...] Indeed, one of the most distinctive features of AI governance and policy is the persistently wide range of views both about the broadest questions of public policy (what is good and bad AI?) and the narrower questions of implementation (e.g., what is a good explanation of an AI decision? How should a principle of fairness be implemented?)44 Not least because of this lack of consensus, there needs. [...] Key impacts include the energy and water use of the data centres in which data is stored and machine learning models are trained and applied, the impact of mining and production of graphical processing units and other equipment needed to develop and run AI systems, and the waste created by regular replacement of equipment.59 References to 54 See generally Daniel Carpenter and David A Moss, Prevent. [...] The role of a final occupation certificate, the court held, is to show suitability of a building for occupation and use and this ‘does not require that all of the building work that is the subject of the development consent has been carried out in accordance with approved plans and specifications, and in a proper and workmanlike manner’.73 In other words, where the certification exercise is framed.