Europe should ban AI for mass surveillance and social credit scoring, says advisory group – TechCrunch

An independent expert group tasked with advising the European Commission to inform its regulatory response to artificial intelligence -- to underpin EU lawmakers' stated aim of ensuring AI developments are "human centric" -- has published its policy and investment recommendations. This follows earlier ethics guidelines for "trustworthy AI", put out by the High Level Expert Group (HLEG) for AI back in April, when the Commission also called for participants to test the draft rules. The AI HLEG's full policy recommendations comprise a highly detailed 50-page document -- which can be downloaded from this web page. The group, which was set up in June 2018, is made up of a mix of industry AI experts, civic society representatives, political advisers and policy wonks, academics and legal experts. The document includes warnings on the use of AI for mass surveillance and scoring of EU citizens, such as China's social credit system, with the group calling for an outright ban on "AI-enabled mass scale scoring of individuals".