Last month, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and face of the artificial intelligence boom, sat in front of members of Congress urging them to regulate artificial intelligence (AI). As lawmakers on the Senate judiciary subcommittee asked the 38-year-old tech mogul about the nature of his business, Altman argued that the AI industry could be dangerous and that the government needs to step in. "I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong," Altman said. "We want to be vocal about that." How governments should regulate artificial intelligence is a topic of increasing urgency in countries around the world, as advancements reach the general public and threaten to upend entire industries.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Authorities around the world are racing to draw up rules for artificial intelligence, including in the European Union, where draft legislation faced a pivotal moment on Thursday. A European Parliament committee voted to strengthen the flagship legislative proposal as it heads toward passage, part of a yearslong effort by Brussels to draw up guardrails for artificial intelligence. Those efforts have taken on more urgency as the rapid advances of chatbots like ChatGPT highlight benefits the emerging technology can bring -- and the new perils it poses.

This month, French lawmakers are expected to pass legislation for the 2024 Paris Olympics, which, for the first time in France's history, will permit mass video surveillance powered by artificial intelligence (AI) systems. When governments embark on the slippery slope towards the expansion of surveillance powers, it has damning consequences for fundamental human rights, including the rights to privacy, equality and non-discrimination, as well as freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. Under the guise of ensuring security and fighting terrorism, the French authorities will be able to monitor the movements of millions of people from around the world, whether they are heading to or near stadiums, or using public transportation leading in or out of the premises of the grand sporting event. The need for security during the game is understandable, but transparency and legal justification are needed at every step of the way. Any proposal concerning security must comply with fundamental rights.

Draft legislation, leaked ahead of its official release later this month, suggests the EU is attempting to find a "third way" on AI regulation, between the free market US and authoritarian China. In a way, the news is no surprise, as the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, promised to urgently bring in AI legislation when she was elected in 2019. Daniel Leufer at Access Now, one of the groups that has previously advised the EU on AI, says Europe has long had a strategy to take a third way between the US and China on tech regulation, and says the draft legislation has promise. It remains to be seen whether the UK will follow the EU in regulating AI now that it has left the bloc. The UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy told New Scientist that the government has formed an independent panel called the Regulatory Horizons Council to advise on what regulation is needed to react to new technology such as AI.

In light of the April 2021 announcement of the world's first legislative framework for regulating Artificial Intelligence (AI), the European Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AIA), now is an opportune time for developers to revisit their strategies for testing AI applications. Incoming regulations mean that the group of stakeholders who care about your testing results just got bigger and more involved. The stakes are high, not least because companies that violate the terms of the legislation could face fines higher than those levied under the General Data Protection Act (GDPR). For the purpose of transparency, certain types of AI also have to make their accuracy metrics available to users, which adds to the pressure to get functional testing right. Following on from Applause's step-by-step guide to training and testing your AI algorithm, this article summarizes how developers should be testing AI applications in anticipation of the new era of AI regulations.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing part of our daily (business) life. As exciting and groundbreaking its possibilities are, the technology can also come with major risks. To protect citizens against misuse, the EU this spring proposed a draft legislation impacting basically every party that develops AI-applications. Our daily life is becoming more and more intertwined with AI, a catch-all term for a machine or system that makes decisions, based on large amounts of data, and improves itself while learning. The algorithms that recommend new information based on your search behaviour on social media, the face recognition on photos on your smartphone, or computers that select job applicants.

Earlier this year in April, the European Commission led the way in this area suggesting a legal framework for the regulation of facial recognition and certain types of AI systems. The draft legislation (also explained in a press release here) looks to create "trustworthy AI" which protects the fundamental rights of citizens while strengthening AI investment and innovation across the EU. The proposal also outlines a risk-based approach to AI, with AI use cases ranked from unacceptable risk to high risk, through to minimal risk uses. Unacceptable risk AI (such as social scoring practices) would be banned, while high risk AI (e.g. As with GDPR, it is clear that the legislation (if adopted) would create much to be considered by those companies creating and marketing AI systems.

The various institutions of the EU aim to be the rule makers and standard bearers for artificial intelligence and associated technology ("AI"). One AI use case which has come under particular scrutiny is that of facial recognition. Since we last wrote on the subject, it has become increasingly clear that the European Commission will take a restrictive approach to the use of facial recognition technology, especially when such use is in public areas. Earlier this year in April, the European Commission led the way in this area suggesting a legal framework for the regulation of facial recognition and certain types of AI systems. The draft legislation (also explained in a press release here) looks to create "trustworthy AI" which protects the fundamental rights of citizens while strengthening AI investment and innovation across the EU. The measures would restrict the use of live facial recognition to a very narrow set of scenarios where this would be deemed essential from a public interest perspective; such as the search for missing children or the policing of terrorist incidents.