Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly present in our society. Understood in a broad sense, we can see it as a tool to support decision-making in any field. This decision-making support affects, and in a very relevant way, people, as data and technology draw profiles and patterns that serve to directly decide and influence them.

For the Catalan Data Protection Authority, technological evolution is based on the massive and intensive use of data, and the right tools must be found to protect the rights and freedoms of people. In this context, the Authority makes available to the public a set of works that it has prepared to analyze both the risks and how to mitigate them.

In this sense, it has developed a pioneering model in Europe for the assessment of the impact on fundamental rights in the use of artificial intelligence (AIDF), in line with what is established in the new Artificial Intelligence Regulation. The document has been worked on within the framework of the 'DPD in network' working group led by expert Alessandro Mantelero, and was born with the desire to be a reference for other organizations that need to carry out an AIDF.