Europe has agreed to the world’s first set of rules regulating artificial intelligence, potentially a model for the United States to follow as regulators here grapple with AI’s potential consequences.
The rules, hashed out by various institutions in the European Union, target usage of AI against citizens in the form of face recognition, scoring of social behavior, manipulative algorithms, and emotion recognition.
It also takes aim at the foundational development of new AI systems, but only in a general way, calling for transparency and, in some cases, preliminary model evaluations and testing before new systems can be rolled out.