TAKASAKI: Margrethe Vestager, the head of the European Union’s technology regulation agency, said on Sunday that the group would likely come to a political agreement this year that would open the door for the first significant artificial intelligence (AI) law in history.
This would come after a tentative agreement on the EU Artificial Intelligence Act was achieved on Thursday.
Vestager proposed legal steps for using AI technologies, such as “labelling obligations for AI-generated images,” in an interview with Reuters during a Group of Seven digital ministers’ conference in Takasaki, Japan.
When asked about the procedures before any agreement comes into effect, she replied, “There was no reason to delay and wait for the law to be passed to speed up the necessary negotiations to provide the changes in every system where AI will have a tremendous impact.”
