Speaking at the “AI and Data Protection Risk Toolkit Launch” hosted by TechUK on 3 May 2022, Stephen Bonner, the ICO’s Executive Director for Regulatory Futures and Innovation explained that the Toolkit is intended to be a practical product for organisations, designed to provide them with confidence that by following the Toolkit, organisations can have high assurances that their use of AI is compliant with data protection laws. Stephen Bonner made it clear that the Toolkit is not intended to slow organisations down, but speed them up with this. In creating the Toolkit, Stephen Bonner said in his speech, the ICO considered three “core pillars” – principles, practicalities and prognostication., Our AI toolkit is designed to provide further practical support to organisations to reduce the risks to individuals’ rights and freedoms caused by their own AI systems., This toolkit will help you understand some of the AI-specific risks to individual rights and freedoms and provides practical steps to mitigate, reduce or manage them..