The law aims to promote excellence and technological innovation and ensure the protection of human rights. The EU is expected to finally approve the standard in the coming weeks, although it will not come into effect until 2026.
He European parliament has ratified the first law on artificial intelligence in the European Union (EU) and in the world, whose main mission is “to limit the dangers of this technology without harming innovation”. This is an important step for its final approval in the European Union. The standard was agreed by the community institutions last December.
“I welcome the European Parliament’s overwhelming support for our Artificial Intelligence Law, the world’s first global and binding standard for trustworthy artificial intelligence,” the European Commissioner for the Internal Market said after the vote. Thierry Breton.
With 523 votes in favour, 46 against and 49 abstentions, the European Parliament endorsed the agreement concluded at the end of last year by a group of representatives of the three Community institutions, which still required the approval of the European Parliament’s plenary session. The EU is expected to give its final approval in the coming weeks, although it will not come into force until 2026.
Regulations allow or prohibit the use of artificial intelligence depending on the risk it poses to citizens. The EU wants to set an example for the rest of the world and give European industry a boost compared to the United States and China.
In general terms: the law on artificial intelligence bans mass surveillance in public spaces, but allows law enforcement agencies to use biometric identification cameras, with prior judicial approval, to prevent an imminent terrorist threat. Also for detecting or identifying a person who has committed crimes in the field of terrorism, human trafficking, sexual exploitation or, for example, an environmental crime, as well as searching for the victims of these crimes.
In addition, the regulation provides for a series of obligations for the generative artificial intelligence systems on which programs such as ChatGPT from the company OpenAI or Bard from Google are based. In concrete terms, they will have to specify whether a text, a song or a photo has been generated by artificial intelligence and ensure that the data used to train the systems respects copyright.
In addition, a whole range of risky artificial intelligence systems are identified that can only be brought to market if their developers guarantee that they respect fundamental rights.
Source: EITB
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