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AI Act passed! European Union Parliament adopts 'pioneering' rules on artificial intelligence
14.03.2024 - 05:00 / tech.hindustantimes.com
The European Parliament gave final approval on Wednesday to the world's most far-reaching rules to govern artificial intelligence, including powerful systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT.
The AI Act focuses on higher-risk uses of the technology by the private and public sector, with tougher obligations for providers, stricter transparency rules for the most powerful models like ChatGPT, and outright ban on tools considered too dangerous.
Senior European Union officials say the rules, first proposed in 2021, will protect citizens from the risks of a technology developing at breakneck speed, while also fostering innovation on the continent.
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen hailed the vote ushering in a "pioneering framework for innovative AI, with clear guardrails."
"This will benefit Europe's fantastic pool of talents. And set a blueprint for trustworthy AI throughout the world," she said on X.
The text passed with support from 523 EU lawmakers, with 46 voting against. The EU's 27 states are expected to endorse the law in April before publication in the bloc's Official Journal in May or June.
Brussels has been sprinting to pass the new rules since OpenAI's Microsoft-backed ChatGPT arrived on the scene in late 2022, unleashing a global AI race.
There was a burst of excitement for generative AI as ChatGPT wowed the world with its human-like capabilities -- from digesting complex text to producing poems within seconds, or passing medical exams.
Further examples include DALL-E and Midjourney, which produce images, while others create sounds based on a simple input in everyday language.
But with the excitement came a swift realisation of the threats -- not least that AI-generated audio and video deepfakes would turbocharge disinformation campaigns.
"Today is again a historic day on our long path towards regulation of AI," said Brando Benifei, an Italian lawmaker who pushed the text through parliament with Romanian MEP Dragos Tudorache.
"We managed to find that very delicate balance between the interest to innovate and the interest to protect," Tudorache told journalists before the vote.
Rules covering AI models like ChatGPT will enter into force 12 months after the law becomes official, while companies must comply with most other provisions in two years.
The EU's rules known as the "AI Act" take a risk-based approach: the riskier the system, the tougher the requirements -- with outright bans on the AI tools deemed to carry the most threat.
For example, high-risk AI providers must conduct risk assessments and ensure their products comply with the law before they are made available to the public.
"We are regulating as little as possible and as much as needed, with proportionate measures for AI models," the EU's internal market
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