Summary by Bing AI:
The article reports on the progress of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act, which aims to be the world’s first law regulating artificial intelligence (AI). The law would introduce rules and safeguards for various applications of AI, such as facial recognition, emotional recognition, chemical weapons, and deepfakes. The article interviews Dragoș Tudorache, a Romanian MEP and co-rapporteur of the parliamentary committee that drafted the legislation. He expresses his optimism that the final text can be agreed by Wednesday, 25 October 2023, after four years of work. He also says that he is more optimistic than pessimistic about AI, as long as there are some guardrails to protect the citizens’ rights and interests.
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Brilliant
various applications of AI, such as facial recognition, emotional recognition, chemical weapons, and deepfakes.
One of these is not like the others.
So I hear you’re in favour of chemical weapons are you?
Strongly in favour of not applying AI to chemical weapon development.
Me too, it’ll take important jobs away from human chemical weapon developers.
The ending of the original portal made that quite clear!
What about AI to counteract chemical weapons?
I wouldn’t trust the results.
yeah, why exclude biological weapons and the Kardashians
I dont know. They all seem to aim at taking control over people and making them feel helpless in the face of that.
Chemical weapons are powerful as a threat in their own might, w.o. actually being used. Similiar to nuclear weapons. And a rogue government can use these tools quite efficiently to facilitate real violence against people.
How do they get to “touching distance” so fast, asking for a friend
simple:
Declare it as “Eeeek! Witchcraft! We don’t want that here!” and you’re halfway done with the corresponding laws.
“AI Tsar” - an MEP drafting legislation on regulating AI/LLMs is an emperor of it? What?
I think it’s a term that, in this context, is used to denote someone who’s either formally or informally (never worked out which) in charge of pushing legislation on a specific topic
You’re correct, and it’s usually a formal appointment (obviously with a different title). It’s a very common term in British political journalism for some reason
It’s usually used when a thing that used to be fragmented across multiple areas of responsibility gets its own point person inside the government.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The EU is within “touching distance” of passing the world’s first laws on artificial intelligence, giving Brussels the power to shut down services that cause harm to society, says the AI tsar who has spent the last four years developing the legislation.
“Artificial intelligence does have a profound impact on everything we do and therefore it was time to bring in some safeguards and guardrails on how this technology will evolve for the benefit of our citizens” said Dragoș Tudorache, a Romanian MEP and co-rapporteur of the parliamentary committee steering through the legislation, in an exclusive interview with the Guardian.
But MEPs felt real-time facial recognition cameras on streets and public spaces was an invasion of privacy, and voted to remove those clauses.
They also voted to remove the right of authorities or employers to use AI-powered emotional recognition technology already used in China, whereby facial expressions of anger, sadness, happiness and boredom as well as other biometric data is monitored to spot tired drivers or workers.
Increased accountability and transparency that will be required under the AI Act “is not only an obligation that puts a burden on them, I also see it as a good opportunity for them to build confidence in their models” and in the public, Tudorache added.
The AI Act will also include obligations for tech companies to regularly publish data on the amount of electricity they consume amid reports it took thousands of computers six months to train ChatGPT.
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