The European Union (EU) He was one of the main actors who advocated the Artificial Intelligence Legislation and, since August 2024, it has its own law that aims to regulate the Development of this technologypromoting innovation without exceeding the limits of possible abuses that can be generated with these tools. However, during the Action Summit on Artificial Intelligencethe EU changed its position and not only announced an investment of 150,000 million euros For him, he developed, but will also seek to make prohibitions more flexible.
In detail, before the developments of the United States and the surprising appearance of China with DeepseekEurope intends to soften the regulation of AI To increase your competence. In this sense, the head of Sovereignty, Security and Democracy in the European CommissionHenna Virkkunen, stressed that the EU will simplify the standards and implement them more friendly for companies.
Europe seeks to soften its regulation about artificial intelligence
During the beginning of the summit, the French president, Emmanuel Macronhe said: “It is very clear that we have to synchronize again with the rest of the world” and after this he said: “Let’s simplify“
“The Notre Dame approach will be adopted for data centers, for the authorization of departure to the market, for the artificial intelligence And for attractiveness, “he said Macron taking as an example the Gothic cathedral of Notre Damerebuilt in a time record after a devastating fire Thanks to a special and simplified regulation.
For his part, Virkkunen said: “I agree with the industries in which now we also have to review our rules, because we have Too many overlapping regulations“Then he said:” We will reduce the bureaucracy and administrative burden of our industries. “
The conclusion of the European Union arrives after the first measures of Trump In terms of AI they have highlighted to what extent the regulation strategies between the United States, China and the EU were distanced. Given this, many of those present at the two -day summit that began on Monday pressed the EU to soften their own rules.
Less than a year ago, in August 2024, the European Union approved the Artificial Intelligence Lawone of the first regulations in the world that provided a framework for the development of this technology.
What does the European Union Artificial Intelligence Law say
The regulations allocate its standards to each company that uses AI systems depending on four risk levels: No risk, minimum risk, high risk and prohibited AI systems. This categorization also determines what deadlines are applied to each company to comply with the new legislation.
In this line, with the entry into force of the law the EU will prohibit completely certain practices as of February 2025. Among them are the ones that manipulate The decision making of a user or extend the databases of Facial recognition through Internet Scraping.
Other AI systems that are considered high risk, such as those that They collect biometric data and those used to critical infrastructures or labor decisionsthey will have to comply with the strictest standards. Among the demands, companies will have to show their IA training data sets And they must also provide evidence of human supervisionamong other requirements.
Thomas Regnier, spokesman for the European Commission, said that “about 85% of AI companies“Current enter the third category of”Minimum risk“, with very little required regulation.
The entry into force of the regulations will require the EU states Create competent national authorities – With limit in August – Supervise the application of regulations in your country. In turn, the members of the European Commission prepare to accelerate investments in AI, with an expected injection of 1,000 million euros in 2024 and up to 20,000 million in 2030.
Source: Ambito
