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.
Recordings and presentations from all speakers at the ERA KR21 Conference Slovenia are now available on the subpage “Recordings and PPTs of Presentations by Speakers“.
Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute ODIPI invites you to a discussion organized by the European Commission Representation in Slovenia titled “Democracy in the Grip of Disinformation: What Can the EU Do?”. The event will take place on Friday, December 13, 2024, from 11:00 to 12:30 at the House of the EU in Ljubljana, Slovenia and online.
Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute ODIPI organized the ERA KR21 Conference Slovenia on December 2, 2024, with the support of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Innovation of the Republic of Slovenia and the Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) program. The Conference focused on addressing the most pressing issues in copyright regulation in the fields of science and Open Science within the European Union (EU), with particular emphasis on barriers and incentives for Open Science in the copyright law. The event represented Slovenia’s contribution to implementing European Research Area (ERA) Policy Agenda Action 2, which focuses on creating a supportive EU legislative framework for copyright and data governance.
On Wednesday, December 4, 2024, the second day of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit 2024 took place at the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič participated as a speaker, presenting during the panel titled “AI Regulation – what we learned so far?”.