Video #1:TC

Speakers: Vimal Mahendru, Vice President, Chair-SMB, IEC

Vimal Mahendru: </CUT> In terms of role of AI or the potential for AI in terms of standards authoring process or in the standardisation domain.</CUT> </CUT> Well, there is a huge, huge potential. </CUT> A few things that come to my mind off the top of my head. Number one, in terms of data analysis and research AI and especially large language models can help bring together and collate complex huge data sets which we in our human mind may have may struggle to put, to wrap our heads, to get around. Second drafting and documentation itself to make making sure that you know, the use of language, the nuances of different words in different contexts. </CUT>Is there, for example, do we do I, do we write something as may shall, should you know, all of those kind of considerations are very well uh assisted </CUT> by AI third automated review and feedback of the standards that we've written in the past, </CUT> you know, are they coherent as part of a big complex system of standards?</CUT> You know, there AI can help bring us out anomalies or gaps also </CUT> if we miss any anything, so they help bring up A I brings out the inconsistencies in standards.</CUT> And last, but not the least in my mind, is compliance checking. The fact that we've written a standard, does it build a compliance chain across all the work that is the body of work that exists within IEC </CUT> I think. Um this is very well assisted by artificial intelligence.</CUT>

Vimal Mahendru: </CUT> In terms of TCs taking urgent steps to adopt OSD and how this will enable smart standards.</CUT> I can really come up with five good reasons why every technical committee or every committee must participate in the OSD project. First and foremost is speed and efficiency online platforms we know and it is proven help accelerate standards development process. </CUT> This is by far an important thing, especially when we want to make sure that these are well written fast and collaborative. When I talk about collaboration,</CUT> The best way to get online global collaboration going. How else can you get global experts to give real input in real time and this can be done online and thus saving cost also for the National Committee </CUT> and the experts participating in the standards development process.</CUT> Next, I can think of transparency and accessibility. Every document is available online, every comment, every nuance, every thumbs up or a thumbs down on a comment. </CUT> Also a vote even on a small aspect of change during the the standards development process is visible to all.</CUT> </CUT> So this brings a lot of transparency and accessibility of older information. To older global experts in real time.</CUT> Then of course, this leads to data driven decision making and not left to any human intervention, data driven decision making as we know can be far better in terms of qualitative work, especially in context of large organizations like IEC. </CUT> already spoken about cost reduction online is the only way we can reduce cost. And hopefully in the process, also our carbon footprint. </CUT>

Vimal Mahendru: </CUT> Important skills for participating in online standards development. I can think of six, first and foremost, some basic knowledge and understanding of AI and machine learning. This will help in unleashing the full potential of these technologies </CUT> for the benefit of standards development. So for example, working knowledge of algorithms, how they work data processing model training and evaluation of A I systems I think is a helpful thing.</CUT> Second, interdisciplinary collaboration, how to work with other domains which are different from my own domain but work in a collaborative manner. </CUT> That's an important skill.</CUT> Third, we all know that cyber security is a big challenge </CUT> is perhaps the biggest thing that is likely to derail any A I system. So awareness of the basics of uh cyber security and how we can manage the challenges posed by poor uh cyber security. I think that can be very helpful next. Um A spirit of constant learning and adaptability technology is changing very fast.</CUT> However, the standards development process has generally remained steady for decades together. However, now we are at that cusp of change where the next level of work is going to be a rapid technological transformation. This is not only about standards writing, but al also about most domains that IEC is working in. And as a result, our ability to learn unlearn, relearn unlearn and continuously adapt to new technologies I think is going to be critical.< It goes >without saying< that with all this change, taking place,< ability to communicate, >well, communicate< across cultural barriers and geographies is an important thing. I cannot emphasize this more. I come from a very small town in northern India for me to participate effectively in the IEC processes. I need to be a good skilled, communicate, communicator communication is the only way through which we can exchange ideas and effective communication skills become critical for the future >last but not the least this. And what is close to my heart is looking at the ethical aspect or, or of bias and bias mitigation through AI models, how to make sure that the AI we use in standards writing or in any of our processes is free of any bias and is truly global in the way we do things. Thank you. </CUT>