NoIn their view, a high-level global summit is needed to reach agreement on a set of draft principles to guide the development, control and deployment of such systems, says a letter from MPs addressed to Ursula von der Leyen and Joe Biden , quoted by the EFE agency.
The 12 MEPs – from the European People’s Party (EPP), Social Democrats, European Conservatives, Liberals and Greens – called on democratic countries to reflect on possible systems of governance, supervision and support for the development of such technology.
They also appealed to non-democratic countries for restraint and responsibility in their quest to develop such tools.
“Recent developments in the field of artificial intelligence have shown that the speed of technological progress is faster and more unpredictable than anticipated by policy makers around the world,” the deputies warn in the letter.
The subscribers envision the “need” for policy makers to dedicate “significant attention” to the issue, as requested by the North American institute “Future of Life”, in a document signed by more than 2,600 experts, academics and businessmen.
The North American institute defends a six-month stop in the training of these artificial intelligence systems to give time to develop safe protocols, otherwise, they warn, “non-human minds” capable of overcoming man and “becoming more intelligent”, running the risk of “losing control” of civilization.
MEPs consider these allegations “alarmist” and disagree with them, being against the proposed moratorium.
The drafters of the European Union (EU) artificial intelligence law are starting negotiations today to establish the criteria that should govern these new instruments.
The two main rapporteurs, the social democrat Brando Benifei and the liberal Dragos Tudorache, told EFE last week that they want the creators of these tools to be transparent in the way they train their models, human supervision and a ban on the dissemination of content illegal.
The European Commission also recognizes “the need to consider specific rules” for this type of tool, according to sources in the office of the Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, and the opinion of the Council of the EU goes in the same direction.
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