In this interview, Ms Benn reflects on one of the central challenges of the AI era: how to enable innovation while ensuring that privacy, data protection, and meaningful human choice remain built into the way technology is developed and used.

As she explains, data governance is a key foundation for this work — from building responsible products to ensuring that AI helps people and organisations achieve their goals while respecting privacy. “AI is really a transformative technology, and our job as privacy and data protection professionals is to make sure that AI helps humans and organizations achieve what they want to achieve (…) while having meaningful choice, good user experiences, and fundamentally processing data the way that people expect.” Watch the whole interview below!