Committee on AI says EU has 'fallen behind' in global tech leadership race

The EU needs to act as a'global standard-setter' in AI, according to a new report that also warned about the risks of mass surveillance. A new EU report says public debate on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) should focus on the technology's "enormous potential" to complement humans. The European Parliament's special committee on artificial intelligence in a digital age adopted its final recommendations yesterday (22 March) after 18 months of inquiries. The committee's draft text notes that the world is on the verge of "the fourth industrial revolution" from an abundance of data combined with powerful algorithms. But it adds that that the EU has "fallen behind" in the global race for tech leadership, which poses a risk that tech standards could be developed in the future by "non-democratic actors".