Tom Whittaker

Senior Associate, Burges Salmon

Tom is a senior associate and solicitor advocate in the dispute resolution team. He regularly advises clients on commercially significant and complex civil disputes for a wide range of corporate and government clients across different sectors.

Tom has published articles in:

Society for Computers and Law journal on: boardroom approach to artificial intelligence risk; and explainable machine learning);
R3 (Insolvency) magazine on data mapping in insolvency; and
The Commercial Litigation Journal on: contractual discretion; and use of technology in investigations.

Tom spoke on FRP Advisory’s podcast 'Unchartered: a new dawn' (here) on technology in forensic investigations.

Tom is on the Electronic Discovery Reference Model project team to improve data mapping in eDiscovery. Tom has specialist accreditations in document review and analysis platforms Relativity and Brainspace.

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The EU AI Act

Practice notes

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (the EU AI Act) was published in the Official Journal of the EU on 12 July 2024, setting out a cross-sectoral regulatory approach to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems across the EU. The intention is to introduce a harmonised approach to AI regulation across the EU, facilitating a ‘uniform legal framework in particular for the development, marketing and use of AI in conformity with EU values’ as well as mechanisms at EU level to enforce those rules. This Practice Note considers the EU AI Act, its background and scope and the rules applying to the different categories of AI Systems such as prohibited AI systems, High-Risk AI Systems, Minimal Risk AI Systems and Limited Risk AI Systems. It covers the promotion of regulatory sandboxes and the enforcement of the EU AI Act. It also provides practical steps for compliance with the EU AI Act.

EU Law