In the EU, the rules for the risks of artificial intelligence are hammered out. COLORBOX
The risk classification of artificial intelligence was raised to the highest level by the EU. The regulation will be voted on in June, after which the detailed content will be decided.
According to Reuters European Union legislators are pushing for an artificial intelligence regulation that would introduce restrictions on artificial intelligences and their administrators. If implemented, the EU-driven artificial intelligence regulation would be the first in the world to set restrictions on the technology in question.
– The importance of artificial intelligence has grown in recent months. We are expected to do something about artificial intelligence and how it affects people’s lives, the MEP who promoted the regulation Dragos Tudorache states.
The restrictions would especially affect facial recognition performed with artificial intelligence, monitoring individual body features, and other applications that utilize artificial intelligence. Of these, it was already decided to ban the use of facial recognition technologies in public spaces in Thursday’s vote.
France, full of protests, passed a law in March for the use of facial recognition technologies in mass surveillance of citizens. The temporary law intended for the 2024 Olympics in Paris has been feared to expand to the rest of Europe and become permanent. The EU’s ban on facial recognition comes to those who are worried about it as a matter of order.
Hard limits
The risk level of artificial intelligence applications was also raised to the highest level. Previously, artificial intelligence was classified as a low-risk technology. Presumably, the requirements set for the companies will be among the most severe in the EU’s article jungle.
– Artificial intelligence should serve citizens, society and the environment. Not the other way around, MEP from the Greens Kim van Sparrentak told.
Artificial intelligence companies will also be required to be transparent about their data usage in the future. One of the most well-known companies is OpenAI, which runs ChatGPT.
OpenAI got a little taste of what’s to come when Italy banned ChatGPT from operating in its country due to data security concerns. However, the ban was lifted after the company meets the country’s requirements.
The artificial intelligence regulation will be voted on in the plenary session of the European Parliament in June before a decision is made on its more detailed content.