AI projects launched in Latvia involving pre-schoolers and diabetics

To the potential concern of persons not enthusiastic about rapid AI adoption and data sharing, these first systems being launched are related to some of society's more vulnerable members: pre-schoolers, and persons with type 1 diabetes. However, the regulatory sandbox the projects are using is intended to allay such fears. “Both projects affect children’s data in the most sensitive areas, education and healthcare, and that is why they are being developed in a special regulatory environment, not outside of it. This is not an exemption from regulatory requirements, but a structured path to compliance, in which the company receives assessments from competent authorities, documented operating limits and clarity about what is permissible already at the development stage, not after the market launch. A company developing a high-risk artificial intelligence system in Latvia has not had such a path so far,” said Guna Puce, Director of the Artificial Intelligence Centre.