The EU Should Not Regulate Artificial Intelligence As A Separate Technology

A report from the recent conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection suggested that the European Commission is "considering the possibility of legislating for Artificial Intelligence." Karolina Mojzesowicz, Deputy Head, Data Protection Unit at the European Commission, said that the Commission is "assessing whether national and EU frameworks are fit for purpose for the new challenges." The Commission is exploring, for instance, whether to specify "how big a margin of error is acceptable in automated decisions and machine learning." The vehicle for this regulatory effort seems to be the draft Ethics Guidelines developed by a high-level expert group. The comment period on this draft closed on February 1, and a final report is due in March.