14 May 2024 - AI Readiness Meeting

[ColinEberhardt]

Details

• Tuesday, 14 May 2024 16:00 - 17:00 (Time Zone: Europe/London)
• https://zoom.us/j/92957783050

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Agenda

The AI readiness group current follows Chatham House Rules, and as a result meetings will not publish formal minutes. The following is an outline of the topics we'll cover:

• Welcome new members; re-iterate the aims of the group and approach - with an open conversations
• Q: Are participants happy with meeting minutes being published on GitHub after internal review? The lack of visible minutes makes it hard for new joiners to catch up
• The core team have a working session on 15th May, are there specific topics we should be covering?
• One of the suggestions from our first call is that we assemble a body of knowledge relating to relevant regulations and existing frameworks, do we have any volunteers for that?

Minutes

• New members, due to recent PR activity, were welcomed to the group
• We had a brief recap of the AI readiness group's goals and ways of working
• There was a discussion on meeting minutes, and our interpretation of Chatham House Rules. It was agreed within the meeting that minutes would be circulated on this email distro for a week, giving the opportunity to veto anything, ahead of publication on our public GitHub site
• The group were updated on the plans to hold a meeting of the core team on the following day
• There was a discussion around whether this group would create code assets, it was indicated that this is not a primary goal
• There was a discussion around researching prior art, existing frameworks or guidance that might be relevant. Oleg volunteered to seed efforts.
• Prachi asked about whether we had engaged regulators, and urged early engagement, which was widely agreed. Prachi is going to start exploring connections.

Finally, the core team met for a 4 hour workshop yesterday. This was a very productive session, thanks to ControlPlane for hosting us. We covered the following agenda items:

• Validation of our overall scope and goals
• Discussion of our core team ways of working
• A one hour 'spike', where we rapidly developed a governance framework for a single use case