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It's quite impressive to read an article as alarmist as this and find that basically every regulation it's complaining about is actually very sensible. Of cour
by simiones 2y ago
It's quite impressive to read an article as alarmist as this and find that basically every regulation it's complaining about is actually very sensible.
Of course an AI tutor is a high risk scenario: having an AI that children are supposed to trust is a highly risky endeavor. If you don't offer cyber-security guarantees, for example, someone could hack it and start directly talking to those children and go into various very dangerous subjects. If you don't log the interactions between the children and the AI tutor, parents that suspect the tutor is malfunctioning can't review records and verify this, even if they sue. And regulations like this ensure that businesses willing to do it well will not be easily outcompeted by people moving fast and breaking thing.
And complaining about the fact that enforcement will be federated and not centralized at the EU level is simply a misunderstanding of the EU. Basically no one actually living in the EU wants to put power into EU authorities, everyone wants to keep most of the power in their own countries. The staffing problem is an issue, but it's also an excellent opportunity: creating AI jobs in every region of the EU, that EU funds could help pay for, is a great chance for the engineering workforce in EU countries.
Overall, I'm happy that I read this article. It left me very happy with the existence and form of the EU AI Act.
- timtom123 2y agoIt reminds me of encryption in 90s in the US. Motivation is different but I could see outcome being similar, driving development out of Europe. Interesting history read IMO: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-established-code-speech https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab... & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy