(Reuters) – MEPs on Thursday approved in a decisive vote in committee proposed tougher legislation on artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, a further step towards adopting new rules governing the AI within the European Union (EU).
The long-awaited EU AI legislation is set to be the first in the world to govern this technology, with new rules regarding the use of facial recognition, biometric surveillance and other AI applications.
After two years of negotiations, the project should now move to the next stage of the legislative process and be finalized with the European Commission and the various Member States.
“It’s a delicate agreement. But it’s a package which I think brings something to all those who participated in these negotiations”, declared Dragos Tudorache, co-rapporteur of the text before the vote of the parties. two parliamentary committees.
“We managed to find a compromise that regulates AI in a proportionate way, protects civil rights and stimulates innovation and the economy,” German MEP Svenja Hahn told Reuters.
In Thursday morning’s vote, MPs gave the green light to a ban on the use of facial recognition in public spaces and predictive policing tools, and agreed to impose new transparency measures on generative AI applications like ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI.
The draft legislation will be put to a plenary vote in the European Parliament in June, before final terms are agreed in negotiations involving representatives of the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission. .
(Report Foo Yun Chee, Martin Coulter, Supantha Mukherjee and Bart Meijer; Gaëlle Sheehan, edited by Blandine Hénault)
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