PETs
AIGP glossary · Last reviewed: · By Victor Humenhuk (AIGP certified)
PETs - Privacy-enhancing technologies; digital solutions letting data be used while protecting confidentiality, preventing intentional and accidental misuse.
In the AIGP body of knowledge, PETs comes up under Module 2: AI Impacts & Responsible AI · BoK II.A.
PETs in context
- ==AI drives the need for PETs==; blockchain is ==not universally applicable== to all AI privacy challenges; autonomous weapons raise accountability, bias and stability concerns. (Tech megatrends and AI)
- [[Explainability]] and transparency are the keys to trust; [[PETs]] support privacy-enhanced AI. (Trustworthy AI: the HAT test)
- Master the two PETs - ==differential privacy blurs the data==; ==federated learning moves the training, not the data==. (Wrangling the Data)
Where PETs is covered in the AIGP study notes
Related terms
- HAT test
- Explainability
- Distrustful AI
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