What Is AI Impact Assessment?
AI Impact Assessment is a structured evaluation of the potential harms, benefits, and rights implications of an AI system before and during its deployment.
AI Impact Assessment — a structured evaluation of the potential harms, benefits, and rights implications of an AI system before and during its deployment.
AI impact assessments go by several names — Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment (FRIA) under the EU AI Act, Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) under GDPR, and Algorithmic Impact Assessment (AIA) in the Canadian and US contexts. The shared structure is: identify the system and its use case, identify affected populations, identify potential harms, assess likelihood and severity, identify mitigations, and document the decision. The EU AI Act requires FRIAs for high-risk AI deployed by public authorities and private operators in certain contexts.
Source: EU AI Act, Article 27; GDPR, Article 35
Plain-language explanation
AI impact assessments go by several names — Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment (FRIA) under the EU AI Act, Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) under GDPR, and Algorithmic Impact Assessment (AIA) in the Canadian and US contexts. The shared structure is: identify the system and its use case, identify affected populations, identify potential harms, assess likelihood and severity, identify mitigations, and document the decision. The EU AI Act requires FRIAs for high-risk AI deployed by public authorities and private operators in certain contexts.
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