Irish Privacy Watchdog Opens Inquiry into Google AI Model
The Irish Data Protection Commission is investigating whether Google performed a required assessment before it started processing personal data of EU and European Economic Area (EEA) citizens for its AI model Pathway Language Model 2. Under the country's data protection…
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act, assessments can be required to ensure that people's rights are protected when data processing will likely result in a high risk, the DPC said. The cross-border inquiry is part of a wider effort by the DPC and its EU counterparts to regulate personal data processing as AI models and systems develop, it said. A Google spokesperson, in an email, said the company takes "seriously our obligations under the [EU general data protection regulation] and will work constructively with the DPC to answer their questions." Earlier this month, the privacy watchdog announced that X permanently agreed to stop using personal data in public posts of EU/EEA users to train its AI tool Grok (see 2409040001).