European Parliament Prepares Tough Measures Over Use of AI

The European parliament is preparing tough new measures over the use of artificial intelligence, including forcing chatbot makers to reveal if they use copyrighted material, as the EU edges towards enacting the world's most restrictive regime on the development of AI. Financial Times: MEPs in Brussels are close to agreeing a set of proposals to form part of Europe's Artificial Intelligence Act, a sweeping set of regulations on the use of AI, according to people familiar with the process. Among the measures likely to be proposed by parliamentarians is for developers of products such as OpenAI's ChatGPT to declare if copyrighted material is being used to train their AI models, a measure designed to allow content creators to demand payment. MEPs also want responsibility for misuse of AI programmes to lie with developers such as OpenAI, rather than smaller businesses using it. One contentious proposal from MEPs is a ban on the use of facial recognition in public spaces under any circumstances. EU member states, under pressure from their local police forces, are expected to push back against a total ban on biometrics, said people with direct knowledge of the negotiations. Agreement between MEPs, who have been fighting over measures to police artificial intelligence for close to two years, is critical to kick-starting broader negotiations over the AI Act. The proposed law would represent some of the toughest rules on the development of AI and comes in the wake of rising concerns about potential abuses of the technology.

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