Artificial Intelligence to be ‘picked up’ as possible ‘risk’ at Telford & Wrekin Council - here's why
Artificial Intelligence is set to be included as a potential risk to Telford & Wrekin Council, a recent meeting heard.
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Concerns have been widely raised that the developing area of technology poses a risk to privacy and data security, among other issues.
Councillor Helena Morgan (Lab, Woodside), who chairs the Telford & Wrekin Council’s watchdog Audit Committee raised the subject at a meeting last week.
The committee was considering the authority’s risk register, which sets out the council’s assessment of financial, reputational, and response risks.
Councillors were told that the issue of AI has been heightened this year “given the push that the Government makes for AI.
“It does not overtly say in the risk register but we will be picking it up during the year,” a council officer responded.
The committee papers revealed that the one and only risk removed from the register over the last few years to do with the council’s response to Brexit.
The risk of the council’s ‘inability to respond to the impact and implications of Brexit’ was removed from the register in January 2022.
