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This June, some 365 million people will be eligible to vote in the EU Elections, including many young voters for whom social media is a vital resource for campaigning. Four countries – Belgium, Germany, Malta and Austria – will allow 16-year-olds to vote, in Greece the minimum age to vote is 17. Five years ago, when the last EU vote was held, the regulatory landscape for online platforms was quite different: there were fewer rules on combating misinformation, and the AI Act did not yet exist. We take a look at how platform regulation in the EU has changed in 2024, compared to the last election...
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The European Commission will only start the selection procedure to find a head of the AI Office when the AI Act is fully approved, which is likely to happen in May. “Until the AI Act is fully formally adopted, the policy units A1 and A2 in DG CONNECT, with their current hierarchies, are carrying out the tasks of the AI Office,” a commission spokesperson told Euronews. Last month (21 February) the commission set up the office with operations starting in the coming months. It already began its recruitment process for policy and technical jobs with a deadline for applications on 27 March. The sta...
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On March 13th, the European Parliament approved the AI Act with an overwhelming majority: 523 votes in favour, 46 against, and 49 abstentions. The regulation, expected to enter into force in May 2024, is already a historic landmark. Despite generative AI already being part of our lives and making headlines in international media, the European Union (EU) is the first-ever institution to approve a set of laws to regulate AI systems, while protecting people’s fundamental rights. To better understand this ground-breaking regulation, this special episode of Euronews Tech Talks brings you the experi...
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Europe’s policymakers have rushed to spin out rules and warnings to tech companies since the launch of ChatGPT and this week has been monumental in establishing the EU’s artificial intelligence (AI) rules. On Wednesday, the European Parliament approved the Artificial Intelligence Act, which takes a risk-based approach to ensure companies release products that comply with the law before they are made available to the public. A day later, the European Commission, asked Bing, Facebook, Google Search, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, and X under separate legislation to detail how they are cur...
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Europe’s AI Act, the world's first attempt to regulate AI systems according to a risk-based approach, will get the final nod in the European Parliament tomorrow (13 March), paving the way for the rules to finally enter into force. However, when it comes to oversight; member states are still in the early stages of determining which regulator is best placed to oversee compliance. Tomorrow, the lawmakers will vote on the text without the minor linguistic changes made by the lawyers during the translation phase. These also need to be formally approved, either by a separate vote in the April plenar...
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Microsoft was founded in 1975, almost 50 years ago, and is now one of the largest companies in the world. In fact, you’ll struggle to find anyone in the western world who hasn’t used a Microsoft product. In early 2024, they overtook Apple as the world’s most valuable company with a market capitalisation of $3.049 trillion (€2.809 trillion). Only the second company ever to surpass a value of $3 trillion. Though much of our day-to-day interactions with Microsoft come through Excel, Word or Xbox, just like every other big tech company, AI is the topic at the forefront of their innovation programm...
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The battle between generative artificial intelligence (AI) companies is underway with two competing camps: open source software versus closed source. Key to the debate is how the tech is democratised, but safety and profit take precedence in the dispute. Generally speaking, open-source software is where the source code is available to everyone in the public domain to use, modify, and distribute. It encourages creativity and innovation as developers can build on AI algorithms and pre-trained models to alter their own products and tools. Closed source AI, on the other hand, means the source code...
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There is no point arguing with Adolf Hitler, who only self-victimises and is, unsurprisingly, a Holocaust denier. This is not the real Hitler risen from the dead, of course, but something equally concerning: an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot version of the fascist dictator responsible for the mass genocide of European Jews throughout World War II. Created by the far-right US-based Gab social network, Gab AI is host to numerous AI chatbot characters, many of which emulate or parody famous historical and modern-day political figures, including Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Osama Bin...
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“There's so many examples of moments when I'm like, 'Why? Why would you think that AI is useful for this?',” says leading AI auditor. Did you know that according to Eurostat, 8% of EU companies used artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in 2021? Out of these, 53% had bought ready-to-use commercial AI systems and intelligence software. Denmark had the most companies using AI, accounting for about 24%, with Romania and Serbia having the least, at around 1% each. Most businesses used artificial intelligence in the communication and information sector. The companies which are for AI believe th...
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A group of 149 global investors representing over US$1.6T in assets issues a statement to EU bodies tasked with developing a regulatory framework for safe AI development and use. Investors Recommend To Strengthen The EU AI ActQ4 2022 hedge fund letters, conferences and more The signatories are members of the Investor Alliance for Human Rights and its allies, and the statement was sent to the relevant officials at the European Parliament, the European Commission, and the Council of the European Union responsible for finalizing the proposed regulation. The statement outlined several additional p...
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