arXiv AI

Practical Principles for AI Cost and Compute Accounting

The article proposes seven principles for AI cost and compute accounting to address regulatory challenges. It argues that policymakers use cost and compute as proxies for AI capabilities and risks, and that current technical ambiguities create loopholes. The principles aim to reduce gaming, avoid discouraging risk mitigation, and enable consistent implementation across companies and jurisdictions.

arXiv AI
Aug 18

Position: AI Governance Needs ISO-like Interoperability Protocols, Not Just Laws

The paper argues that AI governance should rely on ISO-like interoperability protocols rather than solely on jurisdiction-specific laws. It proposes standardized AI nutrition labels that include metrics for bias, energy usage, and data provenance to enable machine‑readable risk communication across borders. These protocols aim to reduce regulatory fragmentation, lower barriers for SMEs, and build public trust while allowing modular evolution with technology.

By Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mst Rafia Islam, Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, Taki Hasan Rafi, Md Manjurul Ahsan, Dong-Kyu Chae
arXiv AI
Aug 18

An Evaluation Framework for National AI Regulation

arXiv:2608. 15417v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Governments use laws, institutions, funding programs and nonbinding guidance to shape how AI is developed and used.

By Kaushik Sanjay Prabhakar, Tarun Adarsh R S, Amal Dhivyan Gregory, Sreeparvathy Sajeev, Utkarsh Tomar, Avyay M Casheekar
arXiv AI
Sep 1

Operationalising AI Regulatory Sandboxes: Activities, Requirements, and Technical Assessment under the EU AI Act

The paper "Operationalising AI Regulatory Sandboxes: Activities, Requirements, and Technical Assessment under the EU AI Act" outlines a detailed framework for implementing AI Regulatory Sandboxes (AIRS) under the EU AI Act. It maps the sandbox lifecycle into 29 activities, distinguishes between a Core AIRS and an Extended AIRS that includes an AI Technical Sandbox (AITS), and derives 15 infrastructural and governance requirements linked to these activities and provider obligations. The authors also introduce the Sandbox Configurator, an open‑source tool to instantiate AITS environments, aiming to provide structured workflows for regulators, robust evaluation methods for experts, and a transparent compliance pathway for AI providers.

By Alessio Buscemi, Thibault Simonetto, Daniele Pagani, German Castignani, Maxime Cordy, Jordi Cabot
arXiv AI
Sep 16

AI Policies: Help or Hindrance? A Software Developer's Perspective

The article examines how AI policies implemented by software organisations affect developers, using insights from 19 interviews. It finds that while such policies aim to reduce risks like data leaks and unauthorized use, they can also impede developers if not properly engaged. The authors propose developer‑centric strategies to help managers and decision makers implement effective AI policies.

By Samuel Ferino, Rashina Hoda, John Grundy, Christoph Treude, Hashini Gunatilake
arXiv AI
Sep 24

Compliant AI Infrastructure for Regulated Finance: A tiered multi-agent framework with DLT audit trails for financial operations in DACH

The paper introduces a compliance-first AI architecture for regulated finance, treating regulation as an orientation layer rather than a rigid rule set. It uses a regulatory intent matrix and a governed policy compiler to translate regulatory requirements into concrete prohibitions, obligations, and runtime budgets, while maintaining proportional committee activation and supervisory oversight. Evidence and decisions are recorded on a permissioned DAG with deterministic timestamps, enabling replay, provenance checks, and clear attribution of failures, and clause-level legal indexing ensures portability across the DACH region and the EU.

By Walter Kurz, Reinhard Magg