The European Union is preparing to adopt a set of groundbreaking rules to regulate artificial intelligence, but critics abound as business groups warn of over-regulation and civil rights advocates say the rules are laced with loopholes — most worryingly because they do not ban mass surveillance of public places.
After 37 hours of negotiations, the EU's key government institutions said they'd reached a political agreement on the outlines of an AI Act. The announcement from Brussels came close to midnight on Friday.
EU leaders hailed it as an “historic” achievement to ensure the deployment of AI in Europe is “human-centric, transparent and responsible,” in the words of Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission.
