The proposed amendments to the EU’s AI Act have garnered a mixed reception from both industry and civil society, with the former seeing it as too stringent and the latter as not stringent enough in many areas, despite positive progress in others
In a series of votes in the European Parliament this morning MEPs have backed a raft of amendments to the bloc's draft AI legislation including agreeing a set of requirements for so called foundational models which underpin generative AI technologies like OpenAI's ChatGPT.
The EU Parliament has approved a new draft of its AI Act, banning misuse of AI for mass surveillance and predictive policing. The legislation still faces serious future revisions but has been welcomed by digital rights campaigners.
The aim is "to avoid a controlled society based on AI, instead to make AI support more freedom and human development, not a securitarian nightmare" a key MEP on the file said.