Panelist Florian Ostmann

Florian Ostmann

The Alan Turing Institute

United Kingdom

Florian Ostmann is head of AI governance and regulatory innovation at The Alan Turing Institute, the U.K.’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. His areas of expertise include regulation and nonregulatory governance mechanisms for AI as well as using the technology to facilitate the work of regulatory bodies. Ostmann leads Turing’s work on the AI Standards Hub, an initiative dedicated to knowledge sharing, community building, strategic research, and international collaboration around standardization for AI technologies. He has a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Ph.D. from University College London.

Voting History

Statement	Response
Organizations will be ready to meet the requirements of the EU AI Act as they phase in over the next 12 months. Neither agree nor disagree	“The EU AI Act’s provisions have implications for a wide range of different types of organizations, including those developing AI and those that are using AI systems developed by others, organizations operating in highly regulated industries, organizations with much more limited prior exposure to and experience with regulatory requirements, large organizations with established compliance functions and startups that lack such functions, and organizations located inside and outside the EU. Given this diversity, while many organizations that will be subject to the AI Act requirements have followed the development of the regulation closely and started preparing over the past couple of years, others have only become aware more recently as the act has approached its finalization, and some remain unaware. One area in which the need for awareness-raising and preparedness efforts remains particularly great is that of the role of harmonized standards for demonstrating compliance with the act’s requirements for high-risk systems.”

Statement

Response

Organizations will be ready to meet the requirements of the EU AI Act as they phase in over the next 12 months. Neither agree nor disagree

“The EU AI Act’s provisions have implications for a wide range of different types of organizations, including those developing AI and those that are using AI systems developed by others, organizations operating in highly regulated industries, organizations with much more limited prior exposure to and experience with regulatory requirements, large organizations with established compliance functions and startups that lack such functions, and organizations located inside and outside the EU. Given this diversity, while many organizations that will be subject to the AI Act requirements have followed the development of the regulation closely and started preparing over the past couple of years, others have only become aware more recently as the act has approached its finalization, and some remain unaware. One area in which the need for awareness-raising and preparedness efforts remains particularly great is that of the role of harmonized standards for demonstrating compliance with the act’s requirements for high-risk systems.”