On March 22, 2022, the European Parliament’s special committee on artificial intelligence in the digital age (AIDA) proposed a roadmap around AI by 2030. After 18 months of work, AIDA concluded that the EU should act globally to set the standards for artificial intelligence. Between immense benefits and threats to fundamental rights, a look back at the recommendations made by this commission.
The European Parliament wants to close the gap in the artificial intelligence sector
Since September 2020, AIDA has been working on the consequences of AI on the EU economy and “ on the enormous potential that this technology offers in terms of development to complement the human “. One of the first conclusions drawn by the commission asserts that the EU is lagging behind globally in order to be a technological leader. Because of this delay, AIDA considers that the next standards around AI could be developed in other areas, and often by non-democratic actors.
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The objective for the EU is to make up for this delay. Several policy options have been identified in order to further exploit this technology whether in the health or the environment sector. One of them is to strengthen the resources needed to improve training around AI. Go through a good training can increase capital and labor productivity, innovation, sustainable growth and job creation “.
Towards the establishment of minimum standards for AI everywhere
While a bill was announced in April 2021 to provide a legislative framework for the use of artificial intelligence across the EU, AIDA considers that it should not regulate AI in as technology. She wishes that ” the level of regulatory intervention must instead be proportionate to the type of risk associated with a particular use of an AI system “.
The commission also focused on the ethical and legal issues that the use of AI could raise: its use in the creation of autonomous lethal weapon systems or in mass surveillance which would harm, according to the special commission , the security of individuals, but also their right to privacy and data protection.
The greatest challenge in limiting many of the threats that AI can pose would be to achieve consensus within the global community to establish minimum standards for the responsible use of this technology. The president of the AIDA commission, Dragoş Tudorache specifies that “ the future competitiveness of the EU at global level in the digital field depends on the rules that we put in place today and that these rules must be in line with our values: democracy, the rule of law, fundamental rights and respect for the rules-based international order “.
All of these recommendations were drawn up in a final report which was adopted by the specialized commission. The text will be officially presented in plenary session of the European Parliament in May so that it can be officially adopted.