Business and Made in Italy Minister
Adolfo Urso and Alessio Butti, the cabinet undersecretary with
the innovation portfolio, on Saturday welcomed the provisional
agreement on the Artificial Intelligence Act reached by the
European Commission, the European Parliament and the European
Council on Friday.
"It is a significant step for the development of artificial
intelligence in the EU and in Italy," Urso and Butti said in a
statement.
"Italy will reiterate the need for a simple and clear regulatory
framework that reflects a balance between technological progress
and the safeguarding of Constitutionally-oriented ethical
principles and of citizens' rights (when the agreement is
submitted to the European governments for final approval)".
The European Union's AI Act is set to become the world's first
law on artificial intelligence (AI).
Under the agreement, a series of AI uses would be banned.
These include: biometric categorisation systems that use
sensitive characteristics (e.g. political, religious,
philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, race); untargeted
scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage to
create facial recognition databases; emotion recognition in the
workplace and educational institutions; social scoring based on
social behaviour or personal characteristics; AI systems that
manipulate human behaviour to circumvent their free will; AI
used to exploit the vulnerabilities of people (due to their age,
disability, social or economic situation).
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