According to the Spanish newspaper El Pais, the EU will become the first region in the world to fully regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI). After three days of intense and difficult negotiations, representatives of various countries and the European Parliament reached an agreement on the “Artificial Intelligence Act” at midnight last Saturday. It is expected to take effect at the end of 2026. Before it takes effect, it still needs the approval of all parties, and some parts of it will start operation ahead of schedule. The agreement defines the obligations and rules that must be observed. AI technology will continue to exist and completely change daily life, but it will bring as many possibilities as risks, many of which are even unimaginable.
“The regulation aims to ensure the safety of artificial intelligence systems used in the EU and respect basic rights and European values,” the Spanish President of the Council of the European Union said on social media, hoping that the law will become a reference or standard for other regions outside the regional borders. Twenty-seven countries in the European Union said that they wanted to ensure the possibility and limit the risk as much as possible, so they negotiated a “future-oriented” law, which contains enough flexibility to supervise the functions or technologies that are unknown at present, or adapt to the existing changes.
Among them, the most difficult problem is how to supervise the general artificial intelligence model (generative artificial intelligence or basic model and biometric monitoring system, such as facial recognition) based on popular tools such as ChatGPT, which eventually becomes the most difficult negotiation point. Members of the European Parliament said that the final text includes their main red lines, confirming that several biometric surveillance systems that they consider unacceptable will be banned: including biometric classification systems (according to politics, religion, philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation or race); A system for expanding or creating a facial database by indiscriminately capturing data through the Internet or audio-visual recordings and television; Identifying emotions in the workplace and educational institutions; Social scoring (a system that scores people according to their social behavior or personal characteristics); Systems to manipulate human behavior and artificial intelligence to exploit people’s weaknesses (for example, due to age, social or economic status).
Post time: Dec-12-2023