Last year I wrote a op-ed in the digi magazine: AI Act kan gi et rush av halvferdige produkter. It was quite a buzz for me to see a big picture of myself “above the fold” on one of Norway’s biggest sites dedicated to technology news! Later that year it was translated into English for Sopra Steria’s corporate website: AI Act could lead to a rush of half-baked products.
I was inspired to write it after attending some meetings with EU officials who were quite concerned with upholding the dates mentioned. I felt that outside of the EU bubble the distinction between before and after the deadlines was under-communicated, and ripe for a lot of rush jobs once it was more widely understood. So I took it upon myself spread the news, as it were.
I think it did quite well, got me some new connections and allowed me to be invited into some interesting meetings I otherwise wouldn’t have, as a “subject matter expert” on the AI Act. The qualifications for being such an expert consisting of actually having read the whole act and writing notes, which is much the same experience as I had when the GDPR was new and scary. Of course, this is exactly the kind of thought work people are increasingly turning to AI agents to do for them. I definitely have some classical Luddite feelings on the matter.
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