“It’s overwhelmingly good news.”
A new draft of the EU’s AI Act has been approved by parliamentary committees. Digital rights campaigners called the draft ‘overwhelmingly good news’ for prohibiting broad misuse of AI — but the act is not yet law.The draft legislation will ban mass facial recognition, among other uses of AI, but has yet to be confirmed as law.
As Chander suggests, it’s likely these laws will affect countries around the world. The EU is such a significant market that tech companies often comply with EU-specific regulation on a global scale in order to reduce the friction of maintaining multiple sets of standards. Information demanded by the EU on AI systems will also be available globally, potentially benefitting users in the US, UK, and elsewhere.
In addition to the prohibitions, the updated draft introduces new measures aimed at controlling so-called “general purpose AI” or “foundational” AI systems — large-scale AI models that can be put to a range of uses. This is a poorly defined category even within the EU’s legislation but is intended to apply to resource-intensive AI systems built by tech giants like Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.
“This database should be freely and publicly accessible, easily understandable, and machine-readable,” says the draft. “The database should also be user-friendly and easily navigable, with search functionalities at minimum allowing the general public to search the database for specific high-risk systems, locations, categories of risk [and] keywords.”
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