/ world today news/ Today is a historic day – for the first time in the world we have a law regulating artificial intelligence. This was commented by Petar Vitanov, who is one of the leading deputies in the European Parliament on the law regulating the use of artificial intelligence.
Representatives of the member states of the European Union and the European Parliament reached an agreement on the rules after difficult negotiations that lasted three days, in which the Bulgarian team was also a part. The agreement concerns the introduction of stricter rules mainly on the use of artificial intelligence in the European Union, and the European Parliament defined it as the first law on artificial intelligence in the world.
“It is important that this law introduces categorization – the more potentially dangerous a system is, the more requirements it must meet. It allows the development of new technologies, but at the same time obliges high-tech companies to comply with a number of ethical and moral rules and prohibits existing discriminatory practices related to real-time biometric identification. It leaves the person in control of these systems,” stated Petar Vitanov.
“The most important battle was to make such rules according to which large technological giants are obliged to comply with a number of requirements, so that ordinary people are protected from encroachment on their personality, from unregulated surveillance, data tracking,” Vitanov added.
The draft regulation was proposed by the European Commission in April 2021. The agreement on the new rules requires underlying AI models to meet transparency obligations before being placed on the market.
The legislation stipulates and requires that governments can only use real-time biometric surveillance of people in public places to track down victims of serious crime, to prevent real, present or projected serious threats such as terrorist attacks, or to searching for people suspected of the most serious crimes. The agreement prohibits the manipulation of cognitive behavior, the non-targeted collection of facial images from the Internet or from security cameras, as well as social scoring or biometric categorization systems for the purpose of interfering with political, religious, philosophical beliefs and convictions, sexual orientation and race.
At the heart of the project is a list of rules that will be imposed only on systems judged to be high-risk, in particular those used in the field of critical infrastructure, education, human resources, maintenance of public order. These systems will be subject to a series of obligations, such as those that provide for human control of the machine, the establishment of technical documentation and the creation of a risk management system. The legislation also provides for special rules for artificial intelligence systems that interact with humans. They will be required to inform the user that he is communicating with a machine and not a real person.
The legislation also provides for the creation of a European Bureau for Artificial Intelligence, which will be within the EC.
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