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STOCKHOLM/LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union policymakers on Friday agreed a provisional deal on landmark rules governing the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
They include the use by governments of AI in biometric surveillance and how to regulate AI systems such as ChatGPT.
Here is some reaction to the deal:
Svenja Hahn, German MEP and shadow rapporteur for the European AI Act, on behalf of the liberal Renew Europe group:
“In 38 hours of negotiations over three days we were able to prevent massive overregulation of AI innovation and safeguard rule of law principles in the use of AI in law enforcement.
“We succeeded in preventing biometric mass surveillance. Despite an uphill battle over several days of negotiations, it was not possible to achieve a complete ban on real-time biometric identification against the massive headwind from the member states.
“They wanted to use biometric surveillance as unregulated as possible. Only the German government had called for a ban.”
Fritz-Ulli Pieper, a specialist in IT law at Taylor…
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