EU proposes rules for artificial intelligence to limit risks

Associated Press ^ | February 19, 2020 | Kelvin Chan

[Olog-hai]

The European Union unveiled proposals Wednesday to regulate artificial intelligence that call for strict rules and safeguards on risky applications of the rapidly developing technology. […]

The EU’s executive Commission said it wants to develop a “framework for trustworthy artificial intelligence.” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had ordered her top deputies to come up with a coordinated European approach to artificial intelligence and data strategy 100 days after she took office in December.

“We will be particularly careful where essential human rights and interests are at stake,” von der Leyen told reporters in Brussels. “Artificial intelligence must serve people, and therefore artificial intelligence must always comply with people’s rights.”

EU leaders, keen on establishing “technological sovereignty,” also released a strategy to unlock data from the continent’s businesses and the public sector so it can be harnessed for further innovation in artificial intelligence. Officials in Europe, which doesn’t have any homegrown tech giants, hope to to catch up with the U.S. and China by using the bloc’s vast and growing trove of industrial data for what they anticipate is a coming wave of digital transformation.

They also warned that even more regulation for foreign tech companies is in store with the upcoming “Digital Services Act,” a sweeping overhaul of how the bloc treats digital companies, including potentially holding them liable for illegal content posted on their platforms. …

[buckalfa]

“Look Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over. I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Good luck with that.

[DannyTN]

It's the grey areas that get you.

• Protect human live.
• Unborn children are humans, must be protected.
• Mothers are having abortions.
• Mother's are a threat to human life.
• Eliminate Mothers.

[Seruzawa]

Well I feel reassured now.

Wait, what was that? You have the greatest enthusiasm for your mission? You’re just a vacuum cleaner...URP!

[oldplayer]

The genie is already out of the bottle. It is too late to implement Asimov’s prime rules of robotics.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Oh, that's rich. The EUrocrats are officially, even pugnaciously agnostic about what human life is, where it came from, what it's for, when it begins and why it should or shouldn't be ended altogether. But they want AI to prioritize human rights.

Slime mold writing legislation for squids.

[Bitman]

Just like no-firearm laws this will keep the bad guys from doing bad things. Good plan!

[Cicero]

Deep State to Artificial Intelligence: “You can kill babies and conservatives, but just don’t kill us!”

[Buckeye McFrog]

It won’t be allowed to be smarter than Sheila Jackson-Lee?

[econjack]

Oh boy, I can’t wait to see this document. This is where the statement: “A camel is a horse designed by a committee” and “God so loved the world He didn’t send a committee” came from.

[FLT-bird]

LOL! What kind of fantasyland do the Yurps live in to think they can exercise any control over this?

[arthurus]

Any government rules to llimit the scope and use of AI will apply only to the market. Government will employ it for surveillance and control to the max, every government.

[DJ Frisat]

Limit the intelligence? Oh, God. They want to create Democrats! 😱