Parliament set to pave way for first EU rules on Artificial Intelligence
MEPs will outline their vision of how the EU can best regulate Artificial Intelligence (AI) in order to boost innovation, ethical standards and trust in technology.
The debate is scheduled for Monday, the votes on two legislative initiatives and one further text for Tuesday.
The European Parliament is among the first to put forward recommendations on what AI rules should include when it comes to ethics, liability and intellectual property rights, so that the EU can become a global leader in its development. The Commission legislative proposal is expected to be out early next year.
The legislative initiative report on ethical aspects underlines that future laws should take into account several guiding principles including a human-centric and human-made AI; safety, transparency and accountability; safeguards against bias and discrimination; right to redress; social and environmental responsibility, and respect for fundamental rights.
There is a call to adopt a future-oriented framework on liability in the legislative initiative report on civil liability, which would make those operating high-risk AI strictly liable if there is damage caused. The rules should cover protection of life, health, physical integrity, property as well as significant immaterial harm if it results in “verifiable economic loss”.
The third text calls for an effective intellectual property rights system and safeguards to the EU’s patent rules. It looks into legal personality, copyright, trade secrets and the protection of creative work that use AI and those generated by AI.
Procedure: Legislative initiative reports (Ethics and Civil liability) and non-binding report (IPRs)
2020/2012(INL), 2020/2014(INL), 2020/2014(INL)
Debate: Monday, 19 October
Vote: Tuesday, 20 October, announcement of results on Wednesday, 21 October