Protecting personal data in AI – new ICO guidance

Developers of artificial intelligence ("AI") continue to push the technology to the next level; not a week goes by without a news story claiming that the next big thing has arrived. One popular recent example is OpenAI's latest machine learning system called GPT-3, which was trained on 45TB of text data and has been pounced upon by fellow developers and commentators alike. Its potential is vast but we are still in the early days of the AI revolution. However, as the AI available to be used grows more powerful, it becomes ever more important to consider the ethical and legal issues involved. In this context, the Information Commissioner's Office ("ICO"), the independent authority in the UK for enforcing data protection laws, has released its "Guidance on AI and Data Protection".