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Jacqueline Acker said she had worked at the Central Intelligence Agency for over eleven years, having joined after working at a law firm in Oklahoma.
“I've been at CIA for over eleven years now, and I think that's, you know, I when I started there, I didn't know how long I'd be there.”
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Acker used an analogy that cars with brakes can go faster to argue that governance guardrails allow faster AI adoption.
“cars originally, you didn't have brakes, and so they couldn't go very fast, but once they had brakes, they could go faster.”
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Acker said many organizations are adapting federal privacy impact assessments into AI impact assessments.
“a lot of organizations are looking at the federal government's privacy impact assessments and saying, Oh, we can shift this into an AI impact assessment.”
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Acker said AI systems should not be reviewed only once a year, and that review frequency should depend on purpose, rate of change and consequences.
“you can't just, like, set it and forget it and come back to a system, like, once every year or something.”
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Acker helped develop the IAPP's AI governance professional certification and teaches the class.
“I actually helped them develop the AI governance professional certification over the last couple of years, and I help teach that class”
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Acker suggested an AI incident response program probably differs from privacy or cyber incident response because AI failures can come from wrong data and involve different stakeholders.
“what should an AI incident response program look like? Is it the same as a privacy incident response or a cyber incidents response program?”
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Acker argued that balanced regulation and governance can speed up AI innovation.
“I really do believe that when there's the right balance of regulation and governance, it can help, um, actually speed up some of that innovation.”
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Acker said she had worked on AI governance for over six years.
“I've been really lucky to be able to work on this for over six years at this point.”
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Acker had completed her sixth semester teaching in the master of legal studies program at American University's Washington College of Law.
“I just wrapped up my 6th semester teaching at American University for their Washington College of Law, um, their master of legal studies program.”
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