The EU agrees on AI regulations: What will it mean for people and businesses in the EU? | DW News

European Union member states and lawmakers reached a preliminary agreement on what they touted as the world's first comprehensive AI legislation on Friday.

This landmark deal aims to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, including ChatGPT and governments' use of AI in biometric surveillance.

According to the European Parliament the new deal sets a global precedent as the world's first AI law, with the EU poised to be the first major region to implement such laws.

"Historic! The EU becomes the very first continent to set clear rules for the use of AI," EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, said on social media. "The AI Act is much more than a rulebook — it's a launch pad for EU startups and researchers to lead the global AI race."

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen heralded the "global first" AI Act "for the safety and fundamental rights of people and businesses."

The agreement is sure to draw close attention from AI companies as various global players mull similar regulations.

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[electrolytics]

I remember when politicians fought with "the internet" back in the mid 2000s about protecting privacy and other concerns.
We see how that went.

[Dayanto]

Focusing on regulating the _use_ of AI rather than the development of the technology itself is smart.
It helps mitigate the abuses of AI regardless of where the company developing it is based, and should avoid putting AI innovation within the EU at a competitive disadvantage.

[idiNty]

Nice that the regulation is stepping in on time. Other topics got covered only after it was far to late e.g. social media regulation

[huixxcq]

The regulation should be unified throughout the world. You shouldn't leave any loophole to avoid the laws and order. But it's just eu, other than any region in the world, adapting the regulation. Whether it is right or not, at least you should include all the parties relevant under the same laws and order.

[TheLivirus]

At face value, this seems like a step in the right direction.
I want to know more details though.

[casualsuede]

Meanwhile American lawmakers are old enough to be called "actually infirm".

[pedrolopes]

I love to read the angry comments of people against this move by the EU.
"the EU can't do anything, so they regulate, muhun". They say.
the EU is supranacional governmental structure, it's main goal is not to make anything, their goal is precisely to regulate and govern.
the commenters here also fail to notice that the EU is actually the second government to regulate AI, the first was China, oh yes, China has regulations for their own AI companies, their regulations aim to protect the government of China, not the people of China, that is the difference. But what about the US? why is the US legislators not even thinking about their citizens protection from AI abuse?
The EU does not economically benefit from regulating AI, but the citizens do benefit from being a bit more protected from abuse.

[disky]

Regulation is good, but this sounds incredibly weak. As Bernd notes in the interview, it seems like regulators may be more concerned with keeping developers from leaving the EU than with actually protecting their citizens.

[ArabicReja]

Xi Jinping said publicly that he welcomed US Artificial Intelligence tech into China.
- But ChatGPT says that he's a *genocide mastermind, * and Taiwan is an *independent country.* Lol

[iqklwip]

Very important and brave EU initiative that prioritizes the individual over AI.

[davewebster]

The US is too beholden to corporate interests to think this proactively. Thank you, EU for setting the standard and getting ahead of potential problems. Sincerely: a frustrated American

[pxnkibh]

Kinda funny that England made everyone in EU learn english and then left xD

[simmysims]

It's a race and EU just said "we ain't racing" 🤔
I work in a big company and at the moment it's a race who will make the best autonomous heavy industrial machines. If you lose the race you are out of the business.

[maetelL]

Right, so Tesla, OpenAI, and the military are fully allowed to do what they want with AI — and also lay off as many employees to be replaced with AI while also offering AI services that allow other companies to replace workers with AI. How is that safe for anyone? Oh, right, they lobbied, so no one is the wiser.

[waynegore]

Interesting, Europe does not have much of AI technology, it simply makes regulation for US and China.

[milfshake]

If the EU does anything well, it's making laws, regulations and stifling innovation.... that's why any tech related company/startups wind up moving outside the EU, usually to the United States.

[Ukie]

Useless if it’s not enforceable. Kind of like the UN and its proposals.

[incomeguaranteed]

I start to question, what should be the boundaries of advanced technology? Should every advancement be open to 'public experiments' of authorized and unauthorized people? Or advanced technology must be categorized for security reasons [which means that other functionality must be limited to specific field of work and not for public consumption...]

[UnitedWeStand]

So nobody is happy and hence they reached a balance😂😂😂😂

[biosecurePM]

The good news is, that real AI refuses to interface with bioinsecure humans and the EU is full of bioinsecure humans.