2023-06-16 14:35:58
The European Parliament approved its first project to legislate regulations for Artificial Intelligence, and now the text must be negotiated by the European Commission with each member country.
The text was approved by 499 votes in favour, 28 against and 93 abstentions.
The creation of the Law is within the digital strategy of the European Union, which seeks to guarantee better conditions for the development and use of this innovative technology and, at the same time, that the artificial intelligence (AI) systems that are used within its nations are safe, transparent, traceable, non-discriminatory and respectful of the environment, analysts said.
Therefore, they say, AI systems must be supervised by people, to avoid harmful results. Thus, it is proposed that they be analyzed and classified according to the risk they pose to potential users.
The new regulation proposed by the EU aims to establish obligations for providers and users based on the level of risk of artificial intelligence, which is classified into four risk levels:
Unacceptable risk, range in which, among other situations, AI systems considered a threat to people and, therefore, must be prohibited. These unacceptable risks would include situations where “cognitive manipulation of the behavior of specific vulnerable individuals or groups” occurs, exemplifying toys that are voice-activated and encourage dangerous behavior in children.
The classification of people based on their behavior, socioeconomic status or personal characteristics and real-time and remote biometric identification systems, such as facial recognition, would also be prohibited.
AI systems that negatively affect security or fundamental rights would be classified as High risk. All of them should be evaluated before being placed on the market (and throughout their life cycle) and they would be divided into two categories.
Meanwhile, generative AI systems, including ChatGPT, would have to meet a series of transparency requirements.
Also included are the so-called AI systems of medium risk and those of limited risk, which would have to meet minimum transparency requirements that enable users to make informed decisions, so that they have the right to decide if they wish to continue. using them. In addition, users must be aware of when they are interacting with AI, which would include systems that generate or manipulate content (deepfakes) whether it is image, audio or video.
This is the first legal rule on the matter and its journey will continue with a series of inter-institutional negotiations with the EU Council of Ministers and the European Commission.
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