The AI Act has only just been agreed upon within the trilogue. But even if the application is not imminent, companies are working to anticipate the entry into force of regulations on artificial intelligence.
This is the case, for example, of the Crédit Agricole group whose Datalab obtained LNE certification this year from the National Metrology and Testing Laboratory. Colas, a subsidiary of Bouygues, can now also claim certification.
Certification of AI design processes
This is what Thomas Rollin, Lead AI Datascience at Colas Digital Solutions, announces, the entity in charge of the group’s digital transformation. For its missions, it integrates, among other things, a Digital Factory as well as a Data Factory.
Largely aligned with the text of the AI Act, certification allows companies to cover the industrial dimension of AI, but also the notions of trust. The LNE constitutes a process certification.
It “allows users to have objective choice criteria to make their selection, and developers to demonstrate that they have mastered all stages of the life cycle of an AI and meet the performance, regulatory, confidentiality and ethics requirements of their customers,” explains the Certification Laboratory.
This certification process “is part of the continuity of our strategy of developing AI algorithms in a responsible manner at COLAS, at the service of our users and our customers”, declares Thomas Rollin.
The LNE can be combined with CSR labeling
Although it is involved in public works, it also deploys solutions incorporating artificial intelligence. This is particularly the case for its Infracare product. The digital decision support tool is intended for communities and should allow them to schedule road maintenance operations.
In the regulated financial sector, the AI Act is followed very closely because of its impacts and new obligations. Aldrick Zapellini, Crédit Agricole’s Group Chief Data Officer, would like to underline the bank’s pioneering position in trustworthy and responsible AI.
Note that the company has chosen to complete the LNE certification in 2023, not a CSR label, thanks to obtaining the Labelia responsible and trusted AI label.
“The overlap between LNE certification and the AI Act, in its stabilized version, is around 95%. However, future regulations do not necessarily take into account elements such as project externalities, societal and environmental impact… This is why we wanted to supplement it with CSR labeling,” explained Aldrick Zapellini earlier this year. in an interview at the IMA.