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Two roles of procurement in public sector digitalisation: gatekeeping and experimentation

How to Crack a Nut

And there are attributes or properties influencing the interpretability of a model (eg clarity) for which there are no evaluation metrics (yet?). Public procurement is thus increasingly expected to play a crucial gatekeeping role in the adoption of digital technologies for public governance and the delivery of public services.

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What are the main governance opportunities and challenges for procurement digitalisation?

University of Bristol

Given its limited digital capabilities, the public sector is not best placed to control or influence the process of self-regulation, which results in the outsourcing of crucial regulatory tasks to technology vendors and the consequent risk of regulatory capture and suboptimal design of commercially determined governance mechanisms.

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Friday Flash 10/20/23

The Coalition for Government Procurement

The bill aims to protect consumers and the public by mandating that AI companies conduct risk and impact assessments for “critical impact” AI systems, followed by the certification of these systems. FedScoop recently acquired an updated draft of the legislation, which has seen major updates.

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Some thoughts on the US' Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of AI

How to Crack a Nut

general minimum practices Both in relation to safety- and rights-impact AI uses, the Draft AI in Government Policy would require agencies to engage in risk management both before and while using AI. In other words, it would be preferable to have a more continuous spectrum of mitigation measures in the context of waivers as well.

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OMB Releases Final Guidance Memo on the Government’s Use of AI

Government Contracts Legal Forum

Required Practices for all Safety- and Rights-Impacting AI Under the risk management requirements of the Memo, before any federal agency can use a safety- or rights-impacting AI, it is required to complete an AI impact assessment. race, age, sex, etc.);

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We Need to Talk About … the EU AI Act!

Kluwer Arbitration

In certain situations, deployers have additional duties to carry out data protection impact assessments (Article 26(9)) and cooperate with national EU authorities (Article 26(12)). In which circumstances these exceptions apply is not immediately clear from the Act.