What is artificial intelligence and how does the EU plan to regulate it?

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Receiving a film recommendation on your favourite video-on-demand platform, unblocking your phone with your face, using autocorrect, and chatting with a chatbot: all of these are everyday examples of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Despite sounding futuristic, AI is already being used by European citizens daily. Its opportunities can be endless, but there are also risks on the table. By Aida Sanchez Alonso.

“The potential of using AI in beneficial ways is enormous: less pollution, improved medical care, enhanced opportunities, better education and more ways to enable citizens to engage in their society,” said Margrethe Vestager, Europe’s competition commissioner who is also in charge of digital.

The article then reads about:

  • What is Artificial Intelligence and why should we worry?
  • What’s the EU current stance on Artificial Intelligence?
  • Is facial recognition going to be a reality in the European Union?
  • Can the risks of reproducing biases be avoided?
  • And what about overregulating or underregulating?

Between wanting to set the world standard to the risk of overregulation that could prevent technology from developing, the European Union faces a great challenge with AI regulation. Good read!

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