On 11 May 2023, members of the European Parliament passed their
compromise text of the AI Act (the AI Act) at the
committee stage, taking this law a step closer to being
finalised.
The compromise text (the Parliament Draft), which amends the
Commission's original proposal, includes quite a large number
of amendments, some of which will most likely not make the final
cut following the trilogue negotiations. Nevertheless, there are a
number of key points worth noting.
Definition of AI: The Parliament Draft changes
the definition of Artificial Intelligence so that it is now defined
as "a machine-based system that is designed to operate
with varying levels of autonomy and that can, for explicit or
implicit objectives, generate outputs such as predictions,
recommendations, or decisions that influence physical or virtual
environments". This aligns more closely to the European
Council's definition of AI than the original Commission's
definition, which was criticised as
