The European Union has agreed on the world’s first set of rules to regulate artificial intelligence

The proposals from European Union officials, revealed in the organization’s press release, include defining AI as software for which the most important thing is for the user to set the goals. Only then can a program “for a specific set of human-defined objectives, generate results such as content, predictions, recommendations, or decisions that affect the environment with which they interact.”

The AI ​​Law is a flagship legislative initiative that simultaneously promotes both the development of AI (for example, the materials contain measures to support the industry) and the preservation of maximum process safety.

The key idea of ​​the document is that regulation will be based on a “risk-based” approach: the greater the potential risk of a particular new AI functionality to people and states, the stricter the rules will be. That is why the law also includes gradations of AI according to the degree of risk.

Among other things, the rules detail safeguards for the safe use of artificial intelligence (including identifying areas where the use of medium-risk software is permitted, describing the requirements for the use of high-risk software by law enforcement in critical situations, etc.).

A separate section is dedicated to compliance with consumer rights: it will be possible to file complaints about incorrect functioning of AI, for violation there will be fines (percentage of income or a fixed amount): 35 million euros or 7% per prohibited use. requests, 15 million euros or 3% for violating other rules of the AI ​​law and 7.5 million euros or 1.5% for disinformation.

EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, quoted by BBC News, described the project as “historic” and stated that it establishes “clear rules for the use of artificial intelligence”: “it is much more than a set of rules: it is a platform launch date for the start of the EU”. -ups and researchers who will lead the global artificial intelligence race.

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, also did not ignore the news and wrote on social networks that the AI ​​law will help the development of safe technologies that do not threaten people: “this is a single legal framework for the development of AI you can trust.”

This is the first legislative proposal of its kind, meaning it could become a global standard for AI regulation in other countries, as the US, UK and China, where they are already working on similar documents, They have not yet published their own recommendations.