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What are the AI specific procurement standards under development?

1:58:37

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Chief Technology Officer Matthew Fraser describes the development of AI-specific procurement standards focusing on privacy, cybersecurity, contract scrutiny, computing costs, and security measures.

Privacy and cyber writers are essential in procurement standards.
It's important to scrutinize contract terms to mitigate the risks associated with computing cost and capacity.
The procurement standards aim to avoid excessive operating costs by monitoring dependence on AI tools.
Ensuring that purchased products have appropriate security and privacy measures is a key consideration.

Jennifer Gutiérrez

1:58:37

The action plan talks about procurement standards, about developing AI specific procurement standards, can you share any of those procurement standards yet?

Matthew Fraser

1:58:48

So procurement standards including making sure that you have a part of the off of Tech And Innovation is also the office of information privacy.

1:58:55

Mhmm.

1:58:56

Making sure that you have privacy writers, making sure that you have cyber writers, making sure that you're looking at the contract terms, a large portion of what makes AI intuitive is computing cost and and capacity.

1:59:09

Making sure that as things increase and we increase our dependence on these types of tools, we're not inadvertently walking into a pit booking into a trap and finding ourselves consumed by operating expense costs.

1:59:23

So looking at everything from the products that are being purchased and making sure that we have the appropriate security and privacy writers in place is is some of the things that we're looking at.

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