Lisbon, Oct. 8, 2025 (Lusa) - In an interview with Lusa, Srini Kasthoori, an expert in artificial intelligence applied to business, argues that the European AI Act must strike a balance that allows for innovation while also ensuring its effectiveness.
Srini Kasthoori, one of the world's leading experts in AI applied to business and global director of multi-sector solutions at DXC Technology, is in Lisbon until 9 October as part of the World Aviation Festival, where he is a speaker.
When asked about European AI law, he emphasised that Europe is taking the lead on implementing governance.
Some of these regulations "are relevant and important because sometimes technology can get out of control and do things that would probably cause privacy, governance and safety problems, and this generation of AI, especially since LLM and simplified language models and reasoning models started to develop," he continues.
In that sense, there may be security challenges, data privacy challenges, but there may also be challenges in terms of AI inventing things.
Then you'll also have people using AI to access the algorithm, so "it's important that we put up protective barriers to say that the AI isn't doing any kind of damage," he adds.
However, "at the same time, we don't want to overdo it, because that could cause us to lose that innovation," he warns.
Therefore, "there needs to be a strict balance between how we protect our privacy and ensure that organisational governance is in place without losing access to our data or allowing an AI assistant to invade our organisational IT infrastructure".
"It's important that we do this, but in a more growth-focused way," he said.
European AI regulation "must be balanced so that it also allows for innovation," he added.
Srini Kasthoori has over 25 years of experience driving digital transformation for Fortune 500 clients across various industries. He is also a member of the North Carolina IT Strategy Board, where he advises on state-level IT policies and innovation in the public sector.
Srini holds a Master of Science degree from Annamalai University and has completed government education programmes in consulting and generative artificial intelligence at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
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