AI 监管沙盒是一种创新的监管方式,旨在为创新者提供便利,使其能够更好地应对监管环境。
在英国,为支持创新者,将采纳帕特里克·瓦兰斯爵士关于建立多监管机构 AI 监管沙盒的建议。此沙盒将在提供监管制度方面发挥核心作用,该制度具有清晰、适应性强和值得信赖等特点。同时,会为企业提供导航 AI 监管环境的指导,提高消费者和公众的意识,并鼓励监管机构开展宣传活动。
英国计划先在单个行业开展初始试点,之后逐步扩展到多个行业部门。初期将聚焦于 AI 投资度高、行业对沙盒需求大且监管机构间有合作意愿的行业,还希望深入了解对行业最有帮助的服务模式,目前倾向于提供定制化的建议和支持模式,未来会探索开发安全测试环境的能力。
在欧盟,为促进 AI 创新和支持中小企业,增加了对开源许可下研究活动和 AI 组件的豁免。新法律提倡公共当局建立监管沙箱或现实环境,在部署 AI 之前进行测试。欧洲议会议员还改革了欧盟 AI 办公室的角色,使其负责监督 AI 规则手册的实施方式。
We want to make it easy for innovators to navigate the regulatory landscape.Businesses have noted that tools such as regulatory sandboxes can help innovators to navigate the regulatory landscape.Central commissioning or delivery of the sandbox or testbed will also enable information and insights generated from this work to directly inform our implementation of the overall regulatory framework.This function will play a central part in delivering a regulatory regime that is:•Clear:by making it easier for businesses working across sectors.•Adaptable and trustworthy:as it forms an important part of the feedback loop to understand how well the regime is functioning and how it should iterate.To support innovators,we will take forward Sir Patrick Vallance’s recommendation for a46A pro-innovation approach to AI regulationmulti-regulator AI sandbox to be established120(see section 3.3.4 for more detail).Education and awarenessActivities•Provide guidance to businesses seeking to navigate the AI regulatory landscape.•Raise awareness and provide guidance to consumers and the general public to ensure that these groups are empowered and encouraged to engage with the ongoing monitoring and iteration of the framework.•Encourage regulators to promote awareness campaigns to educate consumers and users on AI regulation and risks.121RationaleTo be effective,this function must be performed centrally,as the whole regulatory landscape needs to be considered to provide useful guidance to businesses and consumers on navigating it.This will ensure that businesses and consumers are able to contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of the framework and its ongoing iteration.This function will help deliver a regulatory regime that is:
1.97.We intend to focus an initial pilot on a single sector,multiple regulator sandbox.Recognising the importance of AI innovations that have implications in multiple sectors(like generative AI models),we would look to expand this capability to cover multiple industry sectors over time.2.98.Initially,we envisage focusing the sandbox on a sector where there is a high degree of AI investment,industry demand for a sandbox,and appetite for improved collaboration between regulators to help AI innovators take their products to market.We invite consultation feedback on this proposal as well as suggestions for industry sectors that meet these criteria.3.99.We would also like to build a deeper understanding of what service offering would be most helpful to industry.Some sandboxes offer supervised real-life or simulated test environments where innovators can trial new products,often under relaxed regulatory requirements.147 In other scenarios,a team of technologists and regulation experts give customised advice and support to participating innovators over a number of months to help them understand and overcome regulatory barriers so they can reach their target market.148 Our current preference is for the customised advice and support model,as we think this is where we can deliver benefits most effectively in the short term.We will explore options for developing a safe test environment capability at a later date,informed by our initial pilot work.100.The implementation of an AI regulatory sandbox will also be closely informed by Sir Patrick Vallance’s review into digital regulation and his recommendation to establish a multi-regulator sandbox.149 The review sets out a number of design principles,which we will build into our pilot approach.This includes targeting such initiatives at start-ups and small to medium-sized businesses.As a matter of priority,we will engage with businesses to understand how such an approach should be designed and delivered to best support their needs.Consultation questions:S1.To what extent would the sandbox models described in section 3.3.4 support innovation?
To boost AI innovation and support SMEs,MEPs added exemptions for research activities and AI components provided under open-source licenses.The new law promotes so-called regulatory sandboxes,or real-life environments,established by public authorities to test AI before it is deployed.为了促进人工智能创新并支持中小企业,欧洲议会议员增加了对开源许可下提供的研究活动和人工智能组件的豁免。新法律提倡公共当局建立所谓的监管沙箱或现实环境,以在部署人工智能之前对其进行测试。Finally,MEPs want to boost citizens’right to file complaints about AI systems and receive explanations of decisions based on high-risk AI systems that significantly impact their fundamental rights.MEPs also reformed the role of the EU AI Office,which would be tasked with monitoring how the AI rulebook is implemented.最后,欧洲议会议员希望增强公民对人工智能系统提出投诉的权利,并获得基于高风险人工智能系统的决策的解释,这些决策会严重影响他们的基本权利。欧洲议会议员还改革了欧盟人工智能办公室的角色,该办公室的任务是监督人工智能规则手册的实施方式。