The world’s first AI regulatory regime has moved closer to reality following provisional agreement on draft legislation between the European Council presidency and European Parliament negotiators, while the wait for a proposed Australian regime continues.
After more than 36 hours of negotiation over three days, draft regulation containing harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (AI) across the European Union (EU) were provisionally agreed to on Friday. Work at the technical level to finalise the details of the new regulation will be undertaken over the next few weeks.
It includes a risk-based framework that would ban high-risk use cases and introduce new governance bodies. Provisions for general purpose AI (GPAI) – AI systems that can be used for many different purposes – and clarifications on innovation support have also been newly included in the agreement.
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