What I find interesting is the implicit priorisation: explainability, (human) accountability, lawfulness, fairness, safety, sustainability, data privacy and non-military use.
I agree, though I would prefer to highlight the first half of the first item - transparency. Also, perhaps make Safety an independent principle than combining with Security.
These are a good set of principles for any company (or individual) can follow to guide them how they use AI.
Is this a new policy? Otherwise, why this sudden and broad implementation so that "suddenly none of the IT employees at the agency could do their jobs properly anymore" (according to the source).
It's pretty new, yes. The binding operational directive from CISA only came down in December. Agencies are in the midst of running the assessment tools and implementing the changes right now. See here: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-25-01-implem....
> Removing admin from people who don't need it is 100% the correct thing to do according to any IT guidelines you could quote. And of course, every single user will whine that they're special and really really need it.
You assume that "suddenly none of the IT employees at the agency could do their jobs properly anymore" is whining and not substantial?
Shouldn't be least privilege principle a culture (a standardised and automated process) and not something that happens ad hoc?
Yes I do assume that... I've worked in IT for a long time. That phrase in a ticket would be an immediate eye roll from me. A lot of the quotes in the article trigger my eye roll reflex actually. But there is some stuff in there that warrants an explanation/double check to be fair.
The first month after March equinox has great religious significance across many cultures (in the temperate zone), e.g. Pesach.
When different cultures meet, they tend to syncretise.
Yes. And this mix continues. Even traditional that originally have some common root and then diverge can later resyncretise. For example look at Halloween being introduced in southern Europe thanks to US cultural influence
That's the trade-off between efficiency and resilience. Another example are the egg prices in US. The industrialisation of agriculture made it more brittle.
Oh man hard to remember. I can just tell you it was not on the official EU website. It was on a thematic one that probably doesn't exist anymore, something like "The coalition for the development of X in Europe".
What I also discovered is often let's say the EU wants to give 10M to 10 projects in a particular domain. Then a there are companies specialised in applying as a project and saying: our project is actually to subdivide this 1M into 8 times 100K and we keep 200K as a fee (I am simplifying but that was the idea).
Not that there are actually legal blockers. It's just that for the team/person creating this thing, it's too much work to pesker legal to find out if there are legal blockers. Legal is going to CYA on these things anyway.
There is a group of countries where it's "probably fine", so those countries get to try demos like these. There are other countries where the policy is "talk to legal", and nobody wants to talk to legal. So those countries don't get access to the demo.
I'm not involved here, but I've seen these issues play out quite often lately.
I don't know how Google is internally organised, but maybe Google Labs does not have a dedicated legal team. And out of fear for possible legal implications, they just block it in EU.
It's quite understandable, because the relevant legislations (AI Act etc) are all very new, not been tested in courts and due to the lack of stare decisis, you can't rely on a uniform application of the law in all jurisdictions, so they just block it.
Frustrating, but I prefer they move fast rather than safe. And from their perspective, it means not releasing it in the EU.
