European Union (EU) negotiators still have not reached an agreement on rules to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) after a 22-hour meeting that continues on Friday.
“In the last 22 hours, great progress has been made in the field of artificial intelligence. Tomorrow we will return to work with the European Parliament and Council. [sexta-feira] at 09:00,” wrote Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton on the social network X.
Since June, fellow legislators (member states and the European Parliament) have been discussing the first community rules to ensure that technologies developing and using artificial intelligence are safe and respect fundamental rights.
In 2021, the European Commission presented this proposal to protect fundamental EU values and rights, as well as user safety, by forcing systems considered high risk to meet mandatory requirements related to their reliability.
This will therefore be the first regulation aimed at AI, although the creators and those responsible for developing this technology are already subject to European legislation on fundamental rights, consumer protection and safety regulations.
Additional requirements, such as human oversight or an obligation to provide clear information about the capabilities and limitations of artificial intelligence, are expected to be introduced to address risks.
AI is increasingly being used in areas such as entertainment (content personalization), online commerce (predicting consumer tastes), home appliances (intelligent programming), and electronic equipment (using virtual assistants such as Siri or Alexa, among others).
The European Commission has tried to strengthen cooperation between member states in the field of AI, but there is still no common legal framework, so the goal is to move from a voluntary approach to a regulatory one.
Brussels expects an agreement to be reached within the EU by the end of the year, but this final meeting has so far failed to reach consensus.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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