Key Findings & Take-Aways of the 4th CSPF meeting

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

➢ Conceptually: the need to make transparency and citizen involvement compatible with the “black box” problem

➢ Legislatively: At the European-level, the legal framework needs to understand citizens not only as end-users but deployers

➢ Geo-strategically: Europe needs to develop its own industry, not only think in terms of integrating and regulating technology (“referees don’t win matches”)

Cybersecurity

➢ Risk of hacking increases with concentration of servers: digital transformation in the PS will likely increase cyber-crime, due to more entry opportunities

➢ Need to be “secure by design”, from the beginning instead of (only) responses

➢ Potential to build own software to make it secure, but a municipality cannot do this on its own