After nearly three years of negotiations, European Union (EU) is on track to approve the first law to regulate artificial intelligence (artificial intelligence). Diplomatic sources leaked that France, which has been the main obstacle so far, will submit and support pioneering regulations that limit the use of this weapon. technology In the voting to be held this afternoon Brussels.
France’s transfer is reluctant. Over the past two months, Emmanuel Macron’s government has put pressure on other member states to reduce the demands set out in the “historic” political agreement signed in December. Germany And Italy They stood by their side but this week decided to change their position to make it easier to approve the project. On its own, Paris has no support to enforce the blockade and will eventually choose to support it.
Still, France placed some conditions on its support. According to the cited diplomatic source, “a balance between transparency and maintaining commercial secrecy” will be required. This language is intended to weaken the coercive provision in the statute. Generative AI publish data used to train software to prevent breaches Copyright. With this, Paris wants to guarantee that European initiatives, like the French one, will also be successful. Mistral Artificial Intelligence or German Aleph Aleph can be competitive.
Macron’s side also demands the fulfillment of obligations set for “high-risk” systems such as artificial intelligence applied in critical infrastructures. biometric identificationIt is implemented “without management burden”.
The 27 countries that make up the EU will meet at 14.45 to officially approve the AI Law. But this support will not be the end of the story. On February 13, a key committee of European MPs will meet to vote on various pieces of legislation; It is likely that France and Germany will continue their lobbying activities in this process. The final vote in which the European Parliament will definitively close the law will take place in March or April.