Standardising artificial intelligence – Susan Taylor Martin, CEO, BSI

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Susan Taylor Martin, CEO of the British Standards Institution, discusses the need to offer businesses meaningful standards of how to use AI ahead of any binding legislation and the unenviable challenge of coordinating AI regulation across international borders and changing administrations.

The British Standards Institution (BSI) is a more than a century-old body, backed by a Royal Charter, that produces technical standards for various industries. The BSI has been hard at work producing standards for the use of AI in companies and hopes to provide a swift voluntary form of AI regulation while governments plan legislation.

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0:00.0	How on earth can legislation possibly keep up with the technology?
0:10.7	And standards are a really kind of, I think, great tool in this kind of a context, because
0:17.9	we have to refresh them, and it's easier to refresh than legislation is.
0:24.6	The Chinese have been very forward thinking in terms of their use of regulations. So actually
0:31.6	they came out with some of the first AI regulations and some of the most detailed AI regulations. Given the scarcity of AI regulations and some of the most detailed AI regulations.
0:40.0	Given the scarcity of AI skills, can we make sure that every regulator has the right
0:45.0	skills to be able to regulate AI in their specific domains?
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1:22.7	Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK
1:28.5	tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related.
1:33.2	I'm your host, Jane Wakefield, and today I'm joined by Susan Taylor Martin, the CEO of
1:39.0	the British Standards Institute.
1:40.8	Welcome, Susan. How are you today?
1:43.0	Hey, good, Jane. Thank you. I was looking
1:45.8	up the British Standards Institute because it's one of those sort of companies that you've heard
1:51.4	of, but you don't always really know what it's done. And one of the things that surprised me when I
1:55.9	looked you guys up was that you were founded in 1901, so you go back a long time.
2:01.2	We're ancient.
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