DUBLIN, IRELAND – September 2024: PrivacySolved’s CEO and Practice Director Wayne Cleghorn has been selected and invited to take part in a programme of work to write the world’s first General Purpose Artificial Intelligence Code of Practice. This work is required by the EU AI Act and is led by the European Commission. This process will be managed and administered by the European AI Office.
The European AI Office selectors informed Wayne Cleghorn: “After careful evaluation of your application, based on the provided and publicly available information, we assessed that you are eligible for the participation in the above-mentioned process according to the criteria ….”
The Code of Practice will become part of official EU AI Act rules for providers of General Purpose AI models and General Purpose AI models with systemic risks. Based on the submissions to the multi-stakeholder consultation which closed on 18 September 2024, Chairs and Vice-Chairs appointed by the European AI Office, will develop a first draft of the Code of Practice and share it with the respective Working Groups in the second Plenary session. In total, there will be four drafting rounds. After 9 months, the final version of the first Code of Practice will be presented in a Closing Plenary, expected to take place in April 2025, and then published, about nine months after the EU AI Act’s entry into force on 1 August 2024. The kick-off Code of Practice Plenary meeting takes place on 30 September 2024.
“This is a huge privilege and an opportunity to work with other experts to complete this essential work to inform and regulate the development of Artificial Intelligence. We have a short timetable, and the work will be challenging, but I will focus and dedicate my best efforts to produce balanced, practical and effective rules and outcomes” says Wayne Cleghorn.