EU's AI Act 'contains powers to order AI models destroyed' – TechCrunch

The European Union's planned risk-based framework for regulating artificial intelligence includes powers for oversight bodies to order the withdrawal of a commercial AI system or require that an AI model be retrained if it's deemed high risk, according to an analysis of the proposal by a legal expert. That suggests there's significant enforcement firepower lurking in the EU's (still not yet adopted) Artificial Intelligence Act -- assuming the bloc's patchwork of Member State-level oversight authorities can effectively direct it at harmful algorithms to force product change in the interests of fairness and the public good. The draft Act continues to face criticizm over a number of structural shortcomings -- and may still fall far short of the goal of fostering broadly "trustworthy" and "human-centric" AI, which EU lawmakers have claimed for it. But, on paper at least, there looks to be some potent regulatory powers. The European Commission put out its proposal for an AI Act just over a year ago -- presenting a framework that prohibits a tiny list of AI use cases (such as a China-style social credit scoring system), considered too dangerous to people's safety or EU citizens' fundamental rights to be allowed, while regulating other uses based on perceived risk -- with a subset of "high risk" use cases subject to a regime of both ex ante (before) and ex post (after) market surveillance.