On Wednesday, the European Parliament gave final approval to some of the world’s most far-reaching rules governing artificial intelligence, including powerful systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
The Artificial Intelligence Bill focuses on high-risk uses of the technology in both the private and public sectors, imposing stricter obligations on providers, creating stricter transparency rules for the most powerful models like ChatGPT, and outright bans if they are deemed too dangerous Tool of.
Senior EU officials said the rules, first proposed in 2021, would protect citizens from the risks posed by rapidly advancing technology while also promoting innovation on the continent.
EU President Ursula von der Leyen welcomed the vote as creating a “pioneering framework for innovative artificial intelligence with clear guardrails.”
“This will benefit Europe’s great talent pool. And create a blueprint for trustworthy AI around the world,” she said on X.
The text was passed with the support of 523 EU MPs, with 46 voting against it. The 27 EU countries are expected to ratify the law in April, before publishing it in the EU’s Official Journal in May or June.
Brussels has been working to pass new rules since OpenAI’s Microsoft-backed ChatGPT launched in late 2022, sparking a global race for artificial intelligence.
ChatGPT has wowed the world with its human-like abilities, from digesting complex text to composing poetry in seconds, or passing medical exams, generative AI has created a wave of excitement.
Further examples include DALL-E and Midjourney, which generate images, while others create sounds based on simple input in everyday language.
But as the excitement set in, people quickly realized the threats—especially the AI-generated audio and video deepfakes that would fuel disinformation campaigns.
“Today is another historic day on our long road to the regulation of artificial intelligence,” said Italian MP Brando Benifei, who along with Romanian MEP Dragos Tudoras Dragos Tudorache) to push the text through parliament.
“We managed to find a very delicate balance between the interests of innovation and the interests of conservation,” Tudorachi told reporters before the vote.
Rules covering AI models such as ChatGPT will come into effect 12 months after the law officially takes effect, while companies must comply with most other regulations within two years.
– Artificial Intelligence Policing Limitations –
The EU’s AI Bill rules take a risk-based approach: the higher the risk to the system, the stricter the requirements – outright banning the AI tools deemed to pose the greatest threat.
For example, high-risk AI providers must conduct risk assessments and ensure their products comply with the law before making them available to the public.
“We are regulating as little as necessary and taking corresponding measures on AI models,” said Thierry Breton, the EU’s internal market commissioner.
Companies that violate the rules could be fined between 7.5 million and 35 million euros ($8.2 million to $38.2 million), depending on the type of infringement and the size of the company.
The use of artificial intelligence for predictive policing and systems that use biometric information to infer an individual’s race, religion or sexual orientation are strictly prohibited.
The rules also prohibit real-time facial recognition in public places, with some exceptions for law enforcement, although police must obtain approval from judicial authorities before deploying any artificial intelligence.
Digital civil rights group Access Now said the bans did not go far enough.
“The final text is full of loopholes, exceptions and exceptions, which means it will not protect people, nor their human rights, from some of the most dangerous uses of artificial intelligence,” it said in a statement.
– EU “withstands pressure” –
The EU has been subject to intense lobbying as artificial intelligence threatens to transform every aspect of European life and big tech companies vie for dominance in this lucrative market.
On Tuesday, regulators pointed to campaigns by French artificial intelligence startups Mistral AI and Germany’s Aleph Alpha, as well as U.S. tech giants such as Google and Microsoft.
They warned that implementation of the law “could be further undermined by corporate lobbying”.
Three regulators from Belgium, France and Germany said: “Many details of the Artificial Intelligence Act remain outstanding and require clarification in numerous implementing bills, such as details on standards, thresholds or transparency obligations.”
Lawmaker Tudorage said the law was “… one of the most heavily lobbied pieces of legislation, certainly in this authorization,” but insisted: “We withstood the pressure.”
Organizations representing Europe’s creative and cultural sectors welcomed the vote in a joint statement but urged the EU to ensure “these important rules are put into practice in a meaningful and effective way”.
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