2023-06-02 01:33:11
Concerns about the dangers that are alerted in relation to the rapid development of artificial intelligence, continue to cause precautions.
In what in the Old Continent a regulation with the character of law is drafted and approved whose formulation has already been approved by the European Parliament, the European Union, together with the United States, prepares a draft of what has been called « common code of conduct” to regulate AI, although its application by companies in the sector would be voluntary.
The event was announced at a joint press conference held at the end of a ministerial meeting of the branch held by the Vice President of the European Commission for the Digital Area and Competition, Margrethe Vestager, and the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken.
The text is being prepared between both parties (the EU and the United States), and will be released shortly, Vestager announced.
The goal is to “establish voluntary codes of conduct that are open to all like-minded countries,” Blinken said.
The idea, Vestager pointed out, is to have “very, very soon” a final proposal on which companies in the sector can voluntarily commit.”
The issue was one of the main topics of the meeting, held within the framework of the Council of Commerce and Technology, and attended by Sam Altman, the founder of the ChatGPT conversational robot, and who continues his tour of the four digital points explaining his technology .
“The EU and the US share the common view that AI technologies bring great opportunities, but also pose risks for our societies,” the EU and US reiterated in a final statement.
Observers believe that another spur that is making the West speed up is the fear that China will take the lead in approving regulations in this sphere.
The EU, which already has the “title” of first in the search for standards for AI, after approving the formulation of a regulation with the character of law, will still have to wait to put it into force.
The text must be approved in the next plenary session of the European Parliament, in mid-June; but then negotiations will begin with the Council of the EU and the Commission to reach a final project. This must be ratified by the Twenty-seven and the European Parliament before it enters into force throughout the EU.
While this occurs, the code of conduct of voluntary assumption can go on protecting, they believe.
With information from Deutsche Welle and El País
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