The European Union approves the first Artificial Intelligence regulation in the world

Due to the impact of Artificial Intelligence, many users have been clamoring for regulation of their uses. It doesn't come from recently, like the artists against artificial intelligence they claim protection against unauthorized use of their works; but it comes from even further away like the facial recognition that gave a lot of talk years ago. Therefore, in the absence of being ratified and thus finally put into operation, the European Union approves the world's first Artificial Intelligence regulation.

It should be said that it will not start right now. It is expected to be launched at the end of 2026, although some points may be launched and thus begin to regulate the AI ​​a little earlier.

Key points of the regulation of Artificial Intelligence in the European Union

First of all, biometric categorization systems will be prohibited, which are systems that classify people by political, religious, philosophical beliefs or by sexual orientation or race. These mechanisms have been used before and have proven to be discriminatory. They will also be systems to expand or create facial databases capturing dataindiscriminately” through the internet or audiovisual recordings and television.

Recognition of emotions is prohibited in the workplace and educational institutions. This has previously been used to justify layoffs, or even prevent the creation of unions. It is also prohibited to create a system similar to that used in some cities in China in which people are scored based on their social behavior or personal characteristics. The last ban will be for systems that manipulate human behavior and AI used to exploit people's vulnerabilities.

Will be allowed surveillance systems real-time biometrics in public spaces. But They can only be used by law enforcement agencies., and they will be very limited. In the case of generative artificial intelligence, they will have to meet transparency criteria, such as specifying that their content has been generated through artificial intelligence, and guaranteeing that the data that has been used to train the systems respects copyright. .