The EU's incoming AI Act is giving off some real I, Robot vibes
The European Parliament just voted to adopt an EU Commission proposal to make the application of artificial intelligence safer. The new proposal, amended by Members of European Parliament (MEPs), aims to «ensure that AI systems are overseen by people, are safe, transparent, traceable, non-discriminatory, and environmentally friendly.»
The AI Act makes a lot of sense considering the state of the artificial intelligence discourse right now, though the first prohibited practice in the original proposal(opens in new tab) is giving off some real I, Robot vibes.
Among a long list of disallowed practices, is «the placing on the market, putting into service or use of an AI system that deploys subliminal techniques beyond a person’s consciousness in order to materially distort a person’s behaviour in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm.»
Of course, there's always some grey area as to what constitutes physical and psychological harm. But that's an opinion piece for another day.
European Parliament news(opens in new tab) gives the low down on the amended «risk based» AI Act, which passed into its draft negotiating stage with a whopping majority of 84 votes in favour. Just seven MEPs voted against, and twelve refrained from voting at all.
Against the original draft, MEPs have made a few changes in the interest of avoiding «intrusive and discriminatory uses of AI systems». Italian Socialist & Democratic party member, and representative of the internal market committee, Brando Benifei, previously said he was «confident that, tomorrow, we will add real-time and post biometric identification in publicly accessible spaces in this list of forbidden practices.»
That has
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