Recent Developments Regarding The EU Framework For Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial Intelligence is a wild beast with astronomical potential to benefit society, yet still a beast that must be carefully nurtured and tamed. With its innate characteristics such as its operational opacity and partially autonomous behaviour, AI poses potential risks for EU Citizens' fundamental rights. Thus EU lawmakers are analysing the best ways to both embrace and regulate its use.

European Commission Proposal

The European Commission set out an AI strategy in 2018, with the goal being to reach EU-wide consensus on developing a ‘human-centric' approach to AI that respects EU values and principles. In 2019, the Commission published a non-binding guideline on ethics in AI establishing 7 key criteria that AI developers should respect, including for instance; non-discrimination and fairness, accountability, transparency and privacy. In 2020, the Commission released a white paper that highlighted the importance of adopting a unified European approach and set