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The EU AI Act and Technical Communication – Impacts and Opportunities

  • Presentation
  • Rechtliche Anforderungen und Normen
  • 14. November
  • 14:00 - 14:45 PM (CET)
  • Plenum2
  • finished
    • Presentation Slides
  • Dr Sean Power

    Dr Sean Power

    • Technically Write IT

Contents

The EU’s concern about AI has accelerated in the last few years: its 2019 AI ethics guidelines, a 2021 proposed AI Act, and, in 2023, MEPs voting to regulate AI by year end 2023, drawing on the act.

Anticipating the regulations, we discuss the AI Act’s impact on the technical communication industry: the act’s emphasis on transparency of AI implementation and development, and the need for clear, stakeholder-relevant technical communication.

Takeaways

  • When documenting AI, consider the EU AI Act’s risk-based approach.
  • When using AI, comply with EU regulation on AI, especially regarding transparency.

Speaker

Dr Sean Power

Dr Sean Power

  • Technically Write IT
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Biography

Sean Power is a senior technical writer at TWi, with several years’ industry experience. He documented AI processes, wrote articles on AI in technical writing, built online assessments, created chatbots, implemented CMS, and documented air conditioning.

In addition, he has worked many years in IT and been an academic author, educator, and public speaker, with a PhD in philosophy, specializing on time and cognition. He has been an Irish Research fellow and a visiting fellow at the ‘Centre for Time’ in Sydney. More recently, he teaches adult education in philosophy, including on the topic of AI.

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