Attention EU regulators: we need more than AI "ethics" to keep us safe - Access Now

There are some broad principles in the Report that should be included in the upcoming regulation, such as, for example, the principle that AI should respect human agency and democratic oversight. The Report also offers recommendations related to transparency, such as a proposed requirement that developers and deployers of high-risk technologies provide documentation to public authorities on their use and design and, "when strictly necessary," "source code, development tools and data used by the system". However, these measures fall short of the transparency requirements which civil society have called for, including the joint recommendation of Access Now and AlgorithmWatch to establish public registers for AI systems used in the public sector. Moreover, any transparency requirements that focus only on allegedly "high-risk" systems leave a gap in oversight of systems that do not fall into this category but still threaten our rights.