After having witnessed, with particular anxiety, the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence – which in the wrong hands can become a powerful tool for spreading disinformation and toxic content for society and democracies – politics is now trying to adopt, just as quickly, appropriate rules for the development and use of AI.
The European Parliament has approved the AI Act, the most advanced set of rules in the world on artificial intelligence. And Italy, in compliance with the new European rules, is thinking about a tricolor path to artificial intelligence.
“The government is preparing a legal provision which aims to establish some principles, determine the rules complementary to those of the European regulation which is in the process of being approved and identify the most effective measures to stimulate our production fabric” he said Giorgia Meloni during the conference “Artificial intelligence for Italy” which took place yesterday in Rome. The prime minister also promised an investment of one billion euros on this technology, “thanks to the commitment of Cdp Venture Capital”.
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In the future AI billwhich the government – according to the statements of the undersecretary with responsibility for innovation Butti – will be launched within the next 15 days, the work of the IA Commission on Information chaired by Father Paolo Benanti.
The IA Commission for Information – not to be confused with the Artificial Intelligence Coordination Committee put together by Undersecretary Alessio Butti – was formed last October by the Undersecretary for Publishing Alberto Barachini With the purpose of “study the impact of artificial intelligence in the publishing and information sector”. And to “bring to light – asked Barachini – opportunities and risks related to AI, outlining ethical perimeters and possible synergies to protect employment and copyright”.
At the time the chair of the IA Commission on Information – which met for the first time on 24 October 2023 – was Giuliano Amato. The latter resigned last January. In his place Barachini appointed Father Benantiprofessor of the Pontifical Gregorian University, expert in technological ethics and the only Italian member of the United Nations Committee on Artificial Intelligence.
Under Benanti’s leadership, the Commission produced a 30 page document on the delicate relationship between artificial intelligence and information, and on the measures necessary to stem dangerous drifts, in particular those fake news which today can be created in an instant with the help, for example, of ChatGpt.
This relationship it was delivered by Brachini to Prime Minister Meloni.
“After months of work, the first phase of the study of the AI Commission for Information has been concluded – said Brachini – I delivered the report to the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, in support of the Government’s strategy for the G7 he Italian presidency and the bill announced today by the prime minister on artificial intelligence, which will contain some of the proposals of the commission led by Father Benanti”.
Il Commission report is divided into seven fundamental pointsincluding proposals for track the reliability of a piece of news – and determine with absolute certainty that it was written by a human being – and to defend copyrightin particular all that content that big tech could misuse to train their generative artificial intelligences. Just as OpenAI would have done with the contents of the New York Times, which sued the creators of ChatGpt for having used the texts produced by its journalists without permission.
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The IA Commission for Information, therefore, he has some sort of marking in mind to be applied to digital content produced (also) by Italian newspapers. A kind of “watermark” that can show key information about a text, such as who published it and when. In this way the source of the news, as well as authorship and editorial responsibilitywill be inextricably linked to the news itself.
“We must defend copyright, the face of those who provide information and then the time stamp, because it is essential to know where content originates and when it was created to avoid fake news” said Barachini, commenting on the green light from the European Parliament to the AI Act, and therefore confirming that the Commission he created has given specific indications on marking that protects human work and the quality of information.
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– 2024-03-15 09:45:29
