From PC Mag: AI regulation is moving forward in Europe.
The European Union's Internal Market and Civil Liberties Committees voted overwhelmingly in favor of supporting the Artificial Intelligence Act Tuesday, allowing the AI Act to move forward toward becoming law in the region.
While the AI Act has not been fully approved yet, this week's vote is an important step toward codified AI laws in Europe and is among the first of its kind globally. The bill previously saw a provisional agreement back in September, and has since undergone a round of negotiations, according to the Parliament's announcement.
The latest ratified version of the AI Act, if passed into law, would ban a range of different uses of AI, providing civilians with more legal protections and privacy around some of AI's more dystopian potential use cases. Biometric categorization, "untargeted" scraping of facial images from the internet or surveillance footage, AI-powered "emotion recognition," social scoring, and predictive policing tools (à la "Minority Report") would become illegal in the EU under the AI Act.
Any type of "manipulative" AI that could be used to exploit human behavior or vulnerabilities would also be prohibited under the Act.
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