Mastodawn

European Commission Aug 1, 2024

First to propose, first to deliver: the AI Act enters into force today.

It sets comprehensive rules to address the risks of AI:

🔴 Unacceptable risk AI, such as social scoring, is banned
🟠 High-risk AI, like in medical devices, must meet strict requirements
🟡 Limited-risk AI, like chatbots, must inform users they are interacting with AI
🟢 Minimal risk AI, such as spam filters, can operate with no added obligations

Europeans can now safely seize the opportunities of AI: https://europa.eu/!t4QTc8

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guetto 🧑‍💻 🇪🇺Aug 1, 2024

@EUCommission

What about face recognition in public places?

What about using AI to select CVs in enterprises?

What about using AI to restrict rights like in Galicia, Spain, where they plan to use AI to detect “people who don’t want to work” and pull them out of unemployment lists?

I see your case list as a shortsighted list.

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Suwul Aug 1, 2024

@guetto @EUCommission
from clicking the link:
1. "categorising people or real time remote biometric identification for law enforcement purposes in publicly accessible spaces" is considered Unnaceptible Risk
2. Selecting CVs could fall under using companies biometrics which is Unnacceptiple Risk, otherwise it would probably fall under High Risk
3. Restricting citizens rights is explicitly listed as the criterion for being Unacceptible Risk, so thats where that would fall

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ENIGMATICO

@susul @guetto @EUCommission

Point 1 was already adressed before and iirc they still can do it under special circumstances. Just not in real time though, they need a court order and can only be performed in recordings or something like that. It also doesnt rule out the posibility of using legal loopholes to use it in other situations.