---

DPC signs Paris declaration on AI data

Data-protection authorities from Ireland, Australia, South Korea, France, and Britain have signed a joint declaration on artificial intelligence (AI).

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) said that the declaration reaffirmed the bodies’ commitment to implementing data governance that promoted “innovative and privacy-protecting” AI.

The declaration was signed in Paris, at an OECD-hosted event organised by the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) and the Data Protection Authority of South Korea.

Risks

The document says that, while AI presents “immense opportunities” for the benefit of humanity, it also poses significant risks to the protection of fundamental rights such as data protection and privacy.

The authorities add that AI also poses risks of discrimination, misinformation, and hallucination that are often caused by the inappropriate processing of data.

The declaration states that AI should be developed and deployed in accordance with data-protection and privacy rules.

‘Innovative efforts’

“This includes embedding privacy-by-design principles into AI systems from the initial planning stage and implementing robust internal data-governance frameworks,” it adds.

While stressing the need for legal certainty, the declaration adds that the application of rules should provide “a sufficient degree of flexibility for various innovative efforts to take place consistently with the protection of privacy and personal data”.

The declaration comes after the European Commission last week published non-binding guidelines on how to determine whether a software system constituted an artificial-intelligence (AI) system under the EU’s AI Act.