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Zerush@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 3 months ago

AI Systems With 'Unacceptable Risk' Are Now Banned In the EU - Slashdot

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Zerush@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 3 months ago
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AI systems that pose "unacceptable risk" or harm can now be banned in the European Union. Some of the unacceptable AI activities include social scoring, deceptive manipulation, exploiting personal vulnerabilities, predictive policing based on appearance, biometric-based profiling, real-time biometri...
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  • りん〜@sopuli.xyz
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    Title says “Are now banned” but in the article it says “Can now be banned”. That’s weird…

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    Ooh. Did the EU just ban “the Algorithm”? Reading the article I’d say yes but I’m sure a lot of well payed lawyers would argue against me

    • Michael Veale@someone.elses.computer
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      @galoisghost @Zerush an incredibly small number of systems fall into the prohibited cases, and those categories themselves have wide exceptions. so no, i don’t think so…

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    A lot of those check boxes seem pretty arbitrary and open to interpretation

    • a4ng3l@lemmy.world
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      What would be your preferred approach ? I’m on the implementation side of this in a reasonably large company and so far I found the act to be reasonable. It must rely on some interpretation as every piece of such regulation. Same as GDPR for example and yet it’s a very important progress for EU citizens guarantee wise.

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    Wrong, we control libre software.

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    Please, stop posting links to articles without create at least a summary here on Lemmy.

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    Original article: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/02/ai-systems-with-unacceptable-risk-are-now-banned-in-the-eu/

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