How to fix the EU Artificial Intelligence Act

The European Union is getting back to work after the summer break, and one of the key files on everyone's mind is the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA). Over the summer, the European Commission held a consultation on the AIA that received 304 responses, with everyone from the usual Big Tech players down to the Council of European Dentists having their say. Access Now submitted a response to the consultation in August that outlined a number of key issues that need to be addressed in the next stages of the legislative process. If you want to regulate something, you need to define it properly; if not, you're creating problematic loopholes. Unfortunately, the definitions of emotion recognition (Article 3(34)) and biometric categorisation (Article 3(35)) in the current draft of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act are technically flawed.