Strasbourg — The European Parliament plans to regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and says it should be subject to stricter rules.
EU lawmakers laid out their position in Strasbourg on Wednesday ahead of draft law negotiations with European Union countries to agree on the final form of the Artificial Intelligence Act.
The EU Parliament said the AI Act would be the world's first comprehensive law worldwide to regulate the use of artificial intelligence.
According to the legal framework, AI systems are to be divided into different risk groups - the more danger the respective application poses, the stricter the rules applied could be.
It would also consider complete bans on features such as real-time facial recognition in public spaces.
AI systems that classify people according to their social behavior or ethnic characteristics would also be prohibited, it said.
According to the EU Parliament, the negotiations with the EU states should begin Wednesday evening.
Artificial intelligence usually refers to applications based on machine learning, in which software searches through large amounts of data for matches and draws conclusions from them.
Various AI applications are used in many areas including programs that evaluate images from computers with greater accuracy and speed than humans.
Self-driving cars also try to predict the behavior of other road users with AI technology. Chatbots or automatic playlists from streaming services also work with AI.
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