EU’s AI Regulations Agreed

Following 36 hours of talks, EU officials have finally reached a historic provisional deal on laws to regulate the use of artificial intelligence. 

The Artificial Intelligence Act 

The Council presidency and the European Parliament’s negotiators’ provisional agreement relates to the proposal on harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (AI), the so-called artificial intelligence act.  

The EU says the main idea behind the rules is to regulate AI based on its capacity to cause harm to society, i.e. following a ‘risk-based’ approach: the higher the risk, the stricter the rules.