Published 27 Jan 2026
Duration: 00:47:25
Regulatory compliance in AI is explored with a focus on the EU's AI Act, emphasizing the need for harmonized standards, observability tools, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure AI systems meet technical, legal, and ethical requirements.
Mike Oaten is the Founder and CEO of TIKOS, working on building AI assurance, explainability, and trustworthy AI infrastructure, helping organizations...
The podcast explores the topic of regulatory compliance in artificial intelligence, with a focus on the EU AI Act as a central framework for governing AI systems. The Act categorizes AI systems into prohibited, high-risk, and low-risk types, imposing stricter regulations on high-risk applications in fields such as finance, healthcare, and defense. Harmonized standards under the Act provide practical guidance to help engineers and development teams ensure compliance by addressing fairness, bias reduction, and system reliability. The discussion stresses the importance of observability in AI systems for regulatory compliance, emphasizing the need for risk-based classification, bias detection, and audit readiness. It also highlights the limitations of traditional observability methods such as LIME and SHAP, advocating for tools that provide causal insights instead, especially for high-risk systems.
Another key point is the increasing preference for open weights models in regulated industries to improve transparency and control. However, the podcast acknowledges the challenges of deploying large language models in sensitive sectors like finance and defense due to compliance risks. A recurring theme throughout the discussion is the necessity of collaboration among engineering, risk, and compliance teams to ensure AI systems are both technically robust and compliant with legal and ethical standards throughout their development and deployment lifecycle.
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