INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
EUParliament proposes AI roadmap to 2030
The European Parliament adopted the final report of the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age. In particular, the report aims to establish an artificial intelligence ('AI') roadmap for up to 2030, with more than 150 policy recommendations on governance, data sharing, digital infrastructure, investment, e-health, e-governance, industry, and security.
In addition, the report advocates a human-centric and trustworthy approach to AI based on fundamental rights, which effectively manages related risks, notably identifying risks to the right to privacy, whilst unlocking the potential of AI. In this respect, the report makes a number of recommendations for a legal framework for AI, which will feed into upcoming work on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council Laying Down Harmonised Rules on Artificial Intelligence ('the AI Act'), which is due to be voted on by the Internal Market and Consumer Protection ('IMCO') and the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) committees in September 2022.
Notably, the report underlines the importance of distinguishing between high-risk and low-risk AI systems, concluding that the former category needs strict additional legislative safeguards while low-risk use cases may, in many cases, require transparency requirements for end users and consumers.
In addition, the report advocates a human-centric and trustworthy approach to AI based on fundamental rights, which effectively manages related risks, notably identifying risks to the right to privacy, whilst unlocking the potential of AI. In this respect, the report makes a number of recommendations for a legal framework for AI, which will feed into upcoming work on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council Laying Down Harmonised Rules on Artificial Intelligence ('the AI Act'), which is due to be voted on by the Internal Market and Consumer Protection ('IMCO') and the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) committees in September 2022.
Notably, the report underlines the importance of distinguishing between high-risk and low-risk AI systems, concluding that the former category needs strict additional legislative safeguards while low-risk use cases may, in many cases, require transparency requirements for end users and consumers.
