Artificial intelligence: A risk worth taking?

Geoffroy Didier (FR, EPP) is a vice-chair of Parliament's Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age While AI technologies are beneficial and deserve to be encouraged at the European level, they must nevertheless be regulated to remain trustworthy. AI must be a tool for humans, mastered by, and at the service of, humans. As rapporteur for the EPP Group, I campaigned for, and obtained from all the political groups, a commitment that the European Parliament officially advocates for a fair balance between technological progress and human respect. We have convinced all political groups of the need to regulate only high-risk technologies so as not to hinder economic innovation, particularly among SMEs. While some technologies, such as facial recognition, are significant and clearly deserve to be controlled, others - such as leisure applications on a cell phone - should in no way be subject to the same normative constraints.