AI Act: a step closer to the first rules on Artificial Intelligence

• Once approved, they will be the world’s first rules on Artificial Intelligence
• MEPs include bans on biometric surveillance, emotion recognition, predictive policing AI systems
• Tailor-made regimes for general-purpose AI and foundation models like GPT
• The right to make complaints about AI systems

To ensure a human-centric and ethical development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Europe, MEPs endorsed new transparency and risk-management rules for AI systems.

On Thursday, the Internal Market Committee and the Civil Liberties Committee adopted a draft negotiating mandate on the first ever rules for Artificial Intelligence with 84 votes in favour, 7 against and 12 abstentions. In their amendments to the Commission’s proposal, MEPs aim to ensure that AI systems are overseen by people, are safe, transparent, traceable, non-discriminatory, and environmentally friendly. They also want to have a uniform definition for AI designed to be technology-neutral, so that it can apply to the AI systems of today and tomorrow.

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