European AI Act: a step closer to the first rules on Artificial Intelligence

Good to see that technological applications of AI for the mass surveillance of EU citizens will be heavily regulated/banned:

"MEPs substantially amended the list to include bans on intrusive and discriminatory uses of AI systems such as:

    “Real-time” remote biometric identification systems in publicly accessible spaces;
    “Post” remote biometric identification systems, with the only exception of law enforcement for the prosecution of serious crimes and only after judicial authorization;
    Biometric categorisation systems using sensitive characteristics (e.g. gender, race, ethnicity, citizenship status, religion, political orientation);
    Predictive policing systems (based on profiling, location or past criminal behaviour);
    Emotion recognition systems in law enforcement, border management, workplace, and educational institutions; and
    Indiscriminate scraping of biometric data from social media or CCTV footage to create facial recognition databases (violating human rights and right to privacy)."

Also interesting to see that disclosure of copyrighted data used for training of LLMs will likely be required:

"Generative foundation models, like GPT, would have to comply with additional transparency requirements, like disclosing that the content was generated by AI, designing the model to prevent it from generating illegal content and publishing summaries of copyrighted data used for training."