Advanced AI Risk Governance: Leveraging DPIAs for High-Risk Systems

Introduction

As organisations deploy increasingly complex AI systems, a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) becomes a crucial governance tool to demonstrate compliance.

This advanced session assumes prior knowledge of DPIAs and focuses on their application to high-risk and sophisticated AI use cases, including Large Language Models (‘LLMs’) and automated decision-making systems. It explores how DPIAs can be adapted to address AI-specific risks such as opacity, bias and evolving functionality in both the UK, EU and further afield.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive course will cover the following:

• A critical analysis of current DPIA expectations and advanced guidance from the UK Information Commissioner's Office (‘ICO’)
• Applying fairness, lawfulness, and transparency in AI systems where outcomes may include the profiling of an individual, generate ‘hallucinations’ or opaque in nature
• Assessing necessity and proportionality in high-risk AI use cases
• Analysis of AI architectures, including Large Language Models, training data pipelines, deployment environments, and third-party dependencies
• Integrating a risk-based methodology aligned with the EU AI Act, the EU Digital Omnibus and how this interacts with the UK AI framework
• Advanced techniques for identifying, documenting and mitigating AI-specific risks, such as bias amplification, function creep, model drift and secondary data use
• Embedding effective human oversight mechanisms that are meaningful, auditable and operationally realistic

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Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.