The European Union has taken the first steps towards regulating artificial intelligence, with its parliament backing a ban on the technology for biometric surveillance, emotion recognition, and predictive policing.
Europe will also seek to require systems such as ChatGPT to indicate that content was generated by AI.
The rules "aim to promote the uptake of human-centric and trustworthy AI and protect the health, safety, fundamental rights and democracy from its harmful effects," per a press release from the European Parliament on Wednesday.
Talks will now begin with EU member states on the precise wording of the legislation.
The rules aim to ensure that AI developed and used in Europe complied with EU rights and values including human oversight, safety, privacy, transparency, non-discrimination, and social and environmental wellbeing.
Persons:
Brando Benifei, Dragos
Organizations:
European, EU
Locations:
Europe, Italy, Romania