European Parliament’ AI Act Report

The European Parliament’s Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, and Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs released a joint report with their recommendations for the proposed Artificial Intelligence Act. Proposed amendments from the committee include a ban on predictive policing, a public AI technology registration requirement, and further alignment with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Advocacy group Access Now was among the first on-lookers to examine and laud the recommendations from the committees.

Key Proposals

• The purpose of this Regulation is to improve the functioning of the internal market by laying down a uniform legal framework in particular for the development, marketing, and use of artificial intelligence in conformity with Union values. This Regulation pursues several overriding reasons of public interest, such as a high level of protection of health, safety, and fundamental rights, and it ensures the free movement of AI-based goods and services cross-border, thus preventing Member States from imposing restrictions on the development, marketing and use of AI systems unless explicitly authorized by this Regulation.
• Artificial intelligence systems (AI systems) can be easily deployed in multiple sectors of the economy and society, including cross borders, and circulate throughout the Union
• At the same time, depending on the circumstances regarding its specific application and use, artificial intelligence may generate risks and cause harm to public interests and rights that are protected by Union law. Such harm might be material or immaterial.
• The notion of an AI system should be clearly defined to ensure legal certainty while providing the flexibility to accommodate future technological developments.
• To ensure a consistent and high level of protection of public interests as regards health, safety, and fundamental rights, common normative standards for all high-risk AI systems should be established.

It is important to strengthen the involvement of stakeholders and civil society organizations in several key provisions of the Regulation, such as the updates to the list of high-risk AI systems, the standardization process, as well as the activities of the Board and the sandboxes. 

Direct Publication Source: https://iapp.org/media/pdf/publications/CJ40_PR_731563_EN.pdf