The European Parliament has approved legislation governing the use of AI. The law will prohibit the use of AI for facial recognition.
BBC reports that the European Parliament passed the draft law, known as the Artificial Intelligence Act (The A.I. Act) on June 14. The document is expected to limit the most dangerous AI use cases.
The document categorises AI systems as either unacceptable, high, limited, or generative. For each group, control measures will be implemented. The measure specifically proposes a prohibition on the use of AI technologies for real-time face recognition in public spaces. Furthermore, content-creation systems, such as the ChatGPT chatbot, will need to inform users that their content is being written by a computer rather than a human.
Approval of the law is pending as the European Commission and the European Council have yet to accept the final version. It is expected to go into effect no earlier than 2025. The regulation will be the world's first law governing the usage and development of artificial intelligence.
Previously, the largest AI developers, including OpenAI and Google DeepMind, released an open letter comparing the dangers of their technology to pandemics and nuclear wars, and warning of the "risk of extinction" of humanity.
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