PLMJ and INESC ID sign a collaboration protocol for the AI Regulation

PLMJ and INESC ID – Institute of Systems Engineering and Informatics, Research and Development of Lisbon, an institute associated with the Instituto Superior Técnico, have signed a protocol with the objective of collaborating, from their respective areas of intervention, in the implementation of programs to verify compliance with the Artificial Intelligence Regulation of the European Union.

Collaboration Protocol

In light of this collaboration protocol, PLMJ and INESC – ID assume the necessary strength to support public and private organizations in the development of an integrated legal and technological methodology for the mapping, assessment and audit of the risks underlying AI systems, in their different applications, uses, components and phases of their development cycle.

Along with compliance programs, both entities will promote training and knowledge sharing initiatives to deepen the technical and legal knowledge associated with the adoption of AI.

The Artificial Intelligence Regulation is the first regulation in the world that comprehensively and transversally regulates the development, use and marketing of artificial intelligence systems.

PLMJ and INESC ID

Pedro Lomba, coordinating partner of PLMJ’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice: “Assessing compliance with the AI Regulation – a pioneering law – will be unlike anything we have done so far in technology law. I see our role, in leading the implementation of regulatory compliance programs, which will have a strong component of validating different types of outputs from AI systems, some predictive, some decisive, necessarily as someone who will have to be able to identify, organize and communicate multiple levels of knowledge about a rapidly evolving family of technologies, some of them new, which, depending on their particular uses, may carry intolerable or heightened risks to organizations and citizens. We see deepening our relationship with a strong technology partner like INESC – ID, which has done unique work on these issues, as a very important part of our positioning.”

Inês Lynce, chair of the INESC-ID board and AI researcher: “The extensive track record of research carried out in the field of artificial intelligence by INESC-ID’s various research groups provides us with an objective and dispassionate view of the potential, risks and uncertainties associated with the applications of these technologies. This vision and the deep knowledge of the area by our researchers will be fundamental to support a correct and feasible interpretation of the provisions contained in the EU Artificial Intelligence Regulation. Given the enormous potential of the technology in the most diverse areas of application and the need to create and observe a set of safeguards, it is essential that there is strong collaboration between entities with competences in the legal area and in the technological area, which is possible thanks to this partnership.”