The two-page document reaffirms the authorities’ commitment to implementing data governance that promotes innovative and privacy-protecting AI.

The declaration was signed yesterday in Paris, at an OECD hosted event organised by the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) and the Data Protection Authority of South Korea.

It warns that AI, while presenting “immense opportunities for the benefit of humanity, innovation in science, the economy, and society as a whole”, also poses “significant risks with respect to the protection of fundamental rights such as data protection and privacy”.

It also highlights the “risks of discrimination, misinformation and hallucination that are often caused by the inappropriate processing of data”.

The declaration highlights “data protection authorities’ leading role in shaping data governance to address AI’s evolving challenges” and sets out a number of shared commitments.

They include commitments to “foster a shared understanding of lawful grounds for processing data in the context of AI training in our respective jurisdictions” and to “exchange information and establish a shared understanding of proportionate safety measures based on rigorous scientific and evidence-based assessments and tailored to diversity of use cases”.