Use of artificial intelligence by the police: Parliament to propose guidelines
To avoid discrimination and ensure the right to privacy, MEPs demand strong safeguards when artificial intelligence tools are used in law enforcement.
In a draft resolution, the Civil Liberties Committee point to the risk of algorithmic bias in AI applications, emphasising the need for human oversight and strong legal controls to prevent discrimination. Human operators should always make final decisions, MEPs say, and algorithms should be transparent, traceable and sufficiently documented.
The draft text calls for private facial recognition databases (like the Clearview AI system, which is already in use) to be banned. It also opposes predictive policing based on behavioural data. In order to respect privacy and the right to human dignity, MEPs ask to permanently ban the automated recognition of individuals in public spaces, as well as any system for the social scoring of citizens, where individuals are assigned a rating based on their behaviour, which could be used to apply rewards or punishments.
Procedure: own-initiative report
Debate: Monday 4 October
Vote: Tuesday, 5 October, result announced Wednesday, 6 October