EU Parliament Adopts Act Regulating The Use Of Artificial Intelligence

On March 13, the European Parliament voted to adopt the Artificial Intelligence Act (Act), nearly three years after it was initially proposed. Once the European Council adopts the Act, and after final legislative formalities, the Act will create the world's first comprehensive set of regulations to govern the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and will have broad effects within the EU and throughout the world.

Applicability

The Act defines an "AI system" as a machine-based system designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment and that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments. Notably, the definition requires an AI system to have the ability to "infer," as this excludes from the Act systems that conduct basic data processing or which undergo