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    AI systems with ‘unacceptable risk’ are now banned in the EU

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    1. chrisdh79 on

      From the article: As of Sunday in the European Union, the bloc’s regulators can ban the use of AI systems they deem to pose “unacceptable risk” or harm.

      February 2 is the first compliance deadline for the EU’s AI Act, the comprehensive AI regulatory framework that the European Parliament finally approved last March after years of development. The act officially went into force August 1; what’s now following is the first of the compliance deadlines.

      The [specifics are set](https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/5/) out in Article 5, but broadly, the Act is designed to cover a myriad of use cases where AI might appear and interact with individuals, from consumer applications through to physical environments.

      Under the bloc’s approach, there are four broad risk levels: (1) Minimal risk (e.g., email spam filters) will face no regulatory oversight; (2) limited risk, which includes customer service chatbots, will have a light-touch regulatory oversight; (3) high risk — AI for healthcare recommendations is one example — will face heavy regulatory oversight; and (4) unacceptable risk applications — the focus of this month’s compliance requirements — will be prohibited entirely.

    3. frunf1 on

      Hahaha. They might be banned but people will still use them. Nothing can stop this. It’s like banning crypto.

    6. 1stFunestist on

      This is good, regulate and than see what happens. Don’t just lose predators all over.

    7. oneupme on

      The effort by the EU to own-goal is hilariously sad due to how frequently it happens.

      If you guys spent half the effort on building up your military defense, you truly wouldn’t need the US to cover your ass.

    8. hype_irion on

      Won’t the evil eu government bureaucrats think of the 5-6 silicon valley trillionaires?

    9. r2k-in-the-vortex on

      That just means AI has to go through the same sort of conformity evaluation as any other product in EU. Risk assessments and mitigations are the core of CE evaluations, its the same basic idea with anything from toothpick to airplane.

    15. puddingmama on

      And it’s all bots once again in here. Fair play EU for ensuring checks and balances. Ai needs regulation just like everything else

    17. lughnasadh on

      I wonder how long before the EU, and Canada too, bans X/Twitter?

      It counts as “AI” more than social media, and is clearly run by someone deeply hostile to democracy, who would like to see it end. It couldn’t be clearer it represents a hostile enemy force to Europeans and Canadians.

      Quite literally to Canadians, where its an integral part of an administration that wants to annexe the country.

    18. -Nicolai on

      To everone calling these “overly prohibitive” regulations a “self-goal” for the EU…

      Please tell me *which* of the banned functions will make us fall behind the rest of the world:

      * AI used for social scoring (e.g., building risk profiles based on a person’s behavior).
      * AI that manipulates a person’s decisions subliminally or deceptively.
      * AI that exploits vulnerabilities like age, disability, or socioeconomic status.
      * AI that attempts to predict people committing crimes based on their appearance.
      * AI that uses biometrics to infer a person’s characteristics, like their sexual orientation.
      * AI that collects “real time” biometric data in public places for the purposes of law enforcement.
      * AI that tries to infer people’s emotions at work or school.
      * AI that creates — or expands — facial recognition databases by scraping images online or from security cameras

      Is it the gaydar? Or maybe the precrime detector?