Council of Europe Convention on Artificial Intelligence - Lexology

At the beginning of February 2023, the Council of Europe Committee on Artificial Intelligence published the "zero" draft Convention on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law. The document is dated 6 January, 2023, and is the Council of Europe's preliminary proposal for the AI future regulatory framework. The Council of Europe began work on the draft in September 2019, and was tasked with examining the feasibility of creating a legal framework to ensure that the design, development and application of AI systems would adhere to standards on human rights, the functioning of democracy and the observance of rule of law . At the beginning of 2022, the Council of Europe set up the Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), which published the revised "zero" draft [Framework] Convention on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, dated 6 January 2023, in February 2023[1]. The Convention is being drafted to establish only a general framework on application of AI systems. Upon examination, even though it is a preliminary and working document, the proposal reveals that the envisaged Convention will not provide for requirements or bans directly applicable to private and legal persons.