ISO/IEC AI meeting discusses sustainability, ethics and emerging regulation

Around 150 delegates from 50 participating countries took part in the recent plenary meeting of the ISO and IEC joint committee on artificial intelligence (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42). At the meeting, delegates heard from the European Commission (EC) and approved a number of resolutions. The keynote speaker was Salvatore Scalzo, an EC Policy and Legal Officer in the field of AI. He works in the Directorate‑General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, which develops and implements digital policies for Europe. Mr. Scalzo said that the EC was taking a strong interest in ISO/IEC AI standards as work continued on a future AI act.