2 days agoEU regulates use of artificial intelligence
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(3 years ago)European Union negotiators reached an agreement late Friday on the first comprehensive rules of artificial intelligence in the world, paving the way for the legal supervision of AI technology that has promised to transform daily life and prompted warnings of existential dangers for mankind. Negotiators from the European Parliament and 27 member states [...]
Negotiators from the European Parliament and the bloc's 27 member states overcome major differences in controversial points, including artificial generation intelligence and the use of facial recognition police to sign a political initiative agreement for the Artificial Intelligence Act.
A deal! ” posted European Commissioner Thierry Breton on Twitter shortly before midnight. “The EU becomes the first continent to establish clear rules for the use of AI”, the AP reports.
The result came after marathon closed-door talks this week, with the initial session lasting 22 hours before a second round began Friday morning.
Officials were at war with the time to ensure a political victory for key legislation. However, civil society groups made a cold reception while waiting for technical details that will have to be clarified in the coming weeks. They said the agreement did not go far enough to protect people from damage caused by the AI systems.
Today's political agreement marks the beginning of important and necessary technical work on the core details of the AI Act, which still lack”, said Daniel Friedlawer, head of the European Office of Computer Industry and Communications Association, a lobby group of the technology industry.
The EU gained an early advantage in the global race to draw up AI's protective rails when it unveiled its first draft regulation in 2021. However, the latest boom in the AI generation prompted European officials to try to update a proposal ready to serve as a plan for the world.
The European Parliament will still have to vote on the act early next year, but with the agreement reached it is a formality, Brando Benifei, an Italian lawmaker co-directing the body's negotiating efforts, said the Associated Press late Friday.
AI's generation systems, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, have broken out in the world's conscience, impressing users with the ability to produce text, photos and songs similar to man, but increasing fears of the dangers that rapidly developed technology poses for jobs, privacy and copyright protection, and even human life itself.
Now, the US, Great Britain, China and global coalitions as the group of 7 major democracies have entered with their proposals to regulate AI.
