CECE prepares input for a new AI consultation
On 23th July, the European Commission (EC) made available a consultation on the inception impact assessment for a proposal of a legislation laying down requirements for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Interested stakeholders are invited to provide comments by the 10th September.
According to the EC, the future proposal aims to ensure that AI is developed and used in an appropriate legal framework with the overall goal to foster the development and update of safe and lawful AI.
The inception impact assessment considers, apart the no-EU policy change baseline scenario, four different options including:
1. ‘soft law’ (non-legislative) approach;
2. voluntary labelling scheme;
3. mandatory requirements for all or certain types of AI;
4. a mandatory requirements with different level of risk by applications.
CECE plans to provide feedback to the inception impact assessment on the basis of the already defined position within the revision of the Machinery Directive. In this position, CECE members highlighted that ‘a machinery does what the designer has programmed the machine to do, by using software, automation and eventually Artificial Intelligence. The type of AI being used and developed today constitutes what is known as narrow AI, whereby a machine can only perform an action assigned from the outset by human – whether a designer, computer specialist or manufacturer.’
The CECE position on the revision Machinery Directive position is available on our website.
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