The EU AI law will not be future-proof unless it regulates general purpose AI systems

The proposed EU AI Act from April 2021, by excluding general purpose AI systems, risks endangering our fundamental rights and safety. In the first partial compromise Council text, the Slovenian Presidency introduced a new article on general purpose AI systems that fails to address the harms arising from these AI systems.

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"General purpose AI systems are systems that can perform a wide range of functions. These include, but are not restricted to, image or speech recognition, audio or video generation, pattern detection, question answering, and translation." [[shutterstock / metamorworks]]

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