The green light has been given to the Artificial Intelligence
Act by the European Parliament's Civil Liberties and Internal
Market committees1.
Notably, it was agreed, by a large majority, to ban the use of
facial recognition in public spaces, predictive policing tools, and
to impose new transparency measures on generative AI applications
like ChatGPT.
As predicted in our Three Top Trends for AI in 2023, AI regulation
continues to progress at space in the EU, with keen focus on ethics
and development of standards and certification.
What do the AI rules do?
The rules follow a risk-based approach and establish obligations
for providers and users depending on the level of risk the AI can
generate. AI systems with an unacceptable level of risk to
people's safety would be strictly prohibited, including systems
that deploy subliminal or purposefully manipulative techniques,
exploit people's vulnerabilities or are used for social scoring
(classifying people based
