Sweden's government said Monday (3 June) that it wanted to give law enforcement the ability to use real-time facial recognition technology from cameras in public places, for example to identify people suspected of certain crimes.
DG CNECT is reorganising one if its units to handle the implementation of the AI Act, with Lucilla Sioli leading the department.
EU policy failed to increase investments in artificial intelligence (AI) on par with global leaders, between 2018 and 2022, said the European Court of Auditors in a report published on Wednesday (29 May).
Much of the EU AI Act’s treatment for general purpose AI with systemic risk hinges on evaluations of the models' capabilities. But how to properly evaluate these models is still under discussion.
The Commission said the office is progressing rapidly, but stakeholders are concerned about the timeline and lack of leadership.
Spearheading the implementation of the world's first comprehensive legislation on Artificial Intelligence (AI), the AI Office requires robust leadership and an innovative structure that mirrors the dynamism of AI, write Philipp Hacker, Sebastian Hallensleben, and Kai Zenner.
Artificial intelligence has posed serious challenges to our understanding of copyright. General-purpose models are trained on massive amounts of text and images in order to produce tools that can answer to a vast array of prompts.
In 27 March 2024, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA Europe) hosted the inaugural edition of the European AI Roundtable in Brussels.
In fake videos that have gone viral online, two of India's A-lister Bollywood actors are seen criticizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asking people to vote for the opposition Congress party in the country's ongoing general election.
Deepfakes of young women allegedly members of the Le Pen family promoting French far-right parties went viral online, escalating the debate around the effectiveness of content moderation ahead of the EU elections in June.
At this year's MWC in Barcelona, Huawei showcased its latest 5G and upcoming 5.5G technologies, emphasizing their transformative potential for both users and businesses.
Six years ago, the Brief imagined the ethical challenge that killer robots, possessing, artificial intelligence and presumably looking like Terminator, would pose.
Advanced technologies, especially the development of AI, are significantly modernising wealth management services, write Max Koretskiy and Illia Kyslytskyi.
The policymakers behind the EU's AI Act, passed by the European Parliament with a large majority on 13 March, aimed to set a new global standard for regulating the technology, but not everyone agrees the impact will be as vast as promised.
Despite the rapid rise in Artificial Intelligence and large social media platforms, the President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) Maria João Rodrigues believes that quality journalism still has a clear role in Europe.
The AI Act has been a long time coming. Whilst it’s a landmark piece of legislation, unfortunately, it fails to meet the bar on human rights protections, writes Laura Lazaro Cabrera.
The EU's AI Act, three years in the making, finally passed. The road to implementation will be complex.
Amid this week's flurry of talks on AI regulation in Strasbourg, a new study found YouTube to have boosted the far right in Finland's national elections.
Artificial intelligence, deepfakes, social media, and misinformation have become integral parts of our daily lives, and their influence on political elections, possibly including the upcoming EU elections in June, is significant.
After Mistral AI and Microsoft announced their strategic partnership on Monday (26 February), sparking an outcry from lawmakers in the European Parliament, French MPs have voiced concern over the partnership's impact on competition and sovereignty in the cloud sector.
Effective enforcement mechanisms to combat deepfakes are vital, considering the transnational nature of deepfakes and the potential for circumventing regulations, writes Cristina Vanberghen.
With artificial intelligence, focus on enforcing competition laws is vital and goes hand in hand with the preservation of democracy, industry experts said at a panel discussion in the European Parliament.
The ambassadors of the 27 countries of the European Union unanimously adopted the world’s first comprehensive rulebook for Artificial Intelligence, rubber-stamping the political agreement that was reached in December.
The negotiations on the world’s first treaty on Artificial Intelligence failed to solve the thorny issue of whether private companies should be covered. At the same time, the latest draft, seen by Euractiv, further watered down an already weakened text.
