The European Union’s parliament has approved the world’s first major set of regulatory ground rules to govern the mediatized artificial intelligence at the forefront of tech investment.
The Act, which is intended to be a consumer protection law, imposes different levels of regulation based on the risk of the AI product at issue.
These levels are:
Unacceptable risk level AI systems:
Which provide social scoring, infer the user’s emotions, impose deceptive techniques, assess the risk of an individual committing a crime, and take users’ real-time biometric data;
High risk AI systems
Which profile an individual’s work performance, economic situation, health, movement, or decision-making patterns without human review; and
General purpose AI systems-
Which are AI models trained on large amounts of data that self-supervise, such as Chat GPT.
The Act prohibits unacceptable risk level AI systems.
This Act is expected to come into force at the end of May 2024.