EU reaches key agreement on AI regulation
On Friday 8 December, negotiators from the European Parliament and the Council reached a provisional agreement on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, which sets out a legal framework to ensure the safe and fair use of AI.
On Friday 8 December, negotiators from the European Parliament and the Council reached a provisional agreement on the Artificial Intelligence Act, which sets out a legal framework to ensure the safe and fair use of AI. The harmonised text of the regulation prohibits high-risk AI practices such as social scoring and non-discriminatory face recognition, while allowing for the limited use of biometric recognition by law enforcement authorities under strict supervision.
High-risk AI systems, including those that could influence electoral outcomes, will require a mandatory fundamental rights impact assessment. The Regulation will also provide mechanisms for citizens to lodge complaints and request clarifications on decisions taken by and affecting high-risk AI systems.
To foster innovation, the text of the regulation supports regulatory sandboxes for AI development, with high penalties for non-compliance. This legislation represents a milestone for the EU in regulating the ethical use of AI, and the text will now progress to the formal adoption stages.
“Can copyright bring artificial intelligence to its knees? Which other circumstances may cause that the “making” of generative AI can dramatically change in the (near) future. This short paper presents potential challenges that copyright poses to the training of the machines on large amount of data. Different jurisdictions address these issues differently. In the USA the legality of these activities is tested in several court cases. Do gentlemen’s agreements and pragmatic symbiosis known from the “search engines business model” provide sufficient basis and/or incentive for the business model of “making” generative AI business model as well?
On Friday, September 27, 2024, the last day of the international conference “Converging Realms: Law, Technology, and Society in the Age of Ethical and Multi-Agent AI” took place. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič took part in the 4th panel entitled Artificial Intelligence+Research.
Today, September 26, 2024, a specialist training for persons who will perform the role of data stewards or related profiles of data experts was organized by the Central Technical Library (CTK) at the University of Ljubljana as part of the SPOZNAJ project, at which Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič also lectured on the subject of open science and copyright.
At the end of this week, between September 26 and September 27, 2024, Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič will attend the international conference “Converging Realms: Law, Technology, and Society in the Age of Ethical and Multi-Agent AI”.