Last Updated: May 09, 2023, 02:50 IST
Experts imagine A.I. may match people very quickly. (Representative picture/Reuters)
The European Commission put ahead regulatory proposals in early 2021, however progress on the laws has been sluggish
The European Union wants to velocity up work on synthetic intelligence (AI) regulation, Commission vice chairman Margrethe Vestager stated Monday, as policymakers wrestle with the dangers from the emergent know-how.
“There isn’t any time to waste” on passing rules to control the use of AI, Vestager told reporters in Berlin.
The European Commission put forward regulatory proposals in early 2021, but progress on the legislation has been slow.
EU member states set out their views on the Commission’s ideas at the end of 2022, while MEPs will put the matter to an initial vote in committee in Strasbourg on Thursday.
The Parliament’s opinion should be confirmed in a plenary vote in June, before negotiations between the EU’s institutions begin in earnest.
“What I think is important is speed. We really need our legislation to get in place,” Vestager stated.
“I actually hope that we will have the primary assembly of the political negotiation earlier than summer season in order that we will finish it this 12 months.”
The arrival of new AI tools such as ChatGPT has reinvigorated the debate over regulation and spurred a response from governments.
ChatGPT can generate essays, poems and conversations from the briefest of prompts, and has proved itself capable of passing some tough exams.
But it has been dogged by concerns that its abilities could lead to widespread cheating in schools or supercharge disinformation on the web.
The chatbot can only function if it is trained on vast datasets, raising concerns about where its maker OpenAI gets its data and how that information is handled.
Italy temporarily banned the programme in March over allegations its data-gathering broke privacy laws, while French and German regulators have opened their own probes.
“When it comes to artificial intelligence like ChatGPT it will also be caught by the (EU’s) AI Act,” Vestager stated.
The proposed laws is “future proof” because it targets the uses of AI, not the specific technologies behind it, Vestager said.
The EU’s draft rules outlaw certain uses such as “generalised surveillance”, whereas firms should authorise themselves for different “high-risk” uses, such as facial recognition.
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