Digital Brief: How to deal with a problem like Artificial Intelligence

Welcome back to EURACTIV's Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. Jumping straight back into the EU's digital agenda for the coming mandate, we recently heard Greek MEP Eva Kaili's thoughts on the big issues for the next five years. She highlighted concerns that the EU's data protection framework, the GDPR, could obstruct AI development on the bloc, saying that "if Article 22 of the GDPR is applied to AI tools, automated decision-making systems would be faced with regulatory backstops aimed at safeguarding the rights of data subjects." Staying with Artificial Intelligence, EU defence ministers are convening in Helsinki this week to discuss, amongst other things, the intersections between Artificial Intelligence and Defence.