What privacy issues for Artificial Intelligence with the GDPR?

Artificial intelligence technologies might find a considerable hurdle in privacy rights, obligations and sanctions provided by the EU General Data Protection Regulation. As part of the series of blog posts on the major changes introduced by the EU Data Protection Regulation, here is an article on how it might affect artificial intelligence. What are artificial intelligence technologies? The perfect example of an artificial intelligence is a self driving car which needs to take autonomous decision based on whatever happens on a street. And a confirmation of the current concerns (and prejudices) around AI is a new study from Germany's Federal Highway Research Institute which found that the autopilot feature of the Tesla Model S constitutes a "considerable traffic hazard".