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Osman Güçlütürk

United Kingdom
Legal and Regulatory Lead
Holistic AI

About

Dr Osman Gazi Gucluturk is Legal and Regulatory Lead at Holistic AI, where he advises on regulatory requirements related to AI, with a primary focus on the EU AI Act, and helps integrate these requirements into proprietary AI Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) products. Previously, Dr. Gucluturk worked as a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project and as the Head of the IT Law Department at Boğaziçi University/Turkey. Dr Gucluturk is a member of the Joint Technical Committee 21 on Artificial Intelligence at CEN/CENELEC, and the sub-committee 42 on Artificial Intelligence at ISO/IEC. He holds an LL.B., an M.A., an LL.M., and an MJur degree from Galatasaray University, Ankara University, London School of Economics, and the University of Oxford, respectively. He obtained his PhD in law from Galatasaray University with his thesis on the lawful use of data in machine learning-based artificial intelligence, which was selected as the Best Doctoral Thesis of the Year by the Turkish Council of Higher Education in 2022.

Osman Güçlütürk's articles (38)

The European AI Office has taken a significant step forward in shaping the future regulatory landscape for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models by initiating the process of the first-ever Code of Practice for GPAI models.

In the EU, the use and processing of personal data is primarily governed by the GDPR but the AI Act also has data governance provisions, meaning the two legislative frameworks will interact.

On 5 September 2024, the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law, the first binding international legal instrument addressing AI Governance, opened for signature at the Conference of Ministers of Justice in Vilnius, Lithuania.

On 25 August 2024, the first independent audit period for Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs) closed after commencing on 25 August 2023.

The EU AI Act introduces regulatory sandboxes as controlled environments that allow the developers of AI systems to innovatively experiment with their AI systems before making them available on the EU market