Court of Audit at the EUROSAI ITWG meeting on legal framework and auditing of AI systems

Supreme audit institutions (SAI) of Norway and Estonia, the latter heading the EUROSAI Working Group on Information Technologies (ITWG), hosted the working group's 17th annual meeting on 24 and 25 September in Oslo, with the SAI Slovenia being among active participants. The key question of the seminar was "Intelligent Auditor in an Artificially Intelligent State?".

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The meeting brought together the representatives of the European and the Arab supreme audit institutions who discussed the role of artificial intelligence in public audit, namely auditing AI-based solutions and using AI technology within SAIs. Guest speakers presented different practical examples of AI application in auditing, including opportunities and risks related with the AI use. The presentations addressed also the following issues: audit of reliability of AI systems, influence of new AI regulations on public sector auditing and use of AI with the purpose to improve audit processes. At the meeting, the Court of Audit gave two presentations.

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Principal Auditors Alenka Blas and Ruti Rous presented the challenges that shall be posed to State auditing by the Artificial Intelligence Act, while mag. Maja Hmelak, auditor of information systems, presented the baseline framework for auditing the systems built on artificial intelligence (NIST AI RMF). The live event in Oslo was joined also by somewhat 200 online participants from Europe, Africa, Asia and South America.

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