Europe Pulling Us into A “Watered Down” AI Treaty – IOTW Report

Europe Pulling Us into A “Watered Down” AI Treaty

Reuters

The first legally binding international AI treaty will be open for signing on Thursday by the countries that negotiated it, including European Union members, the United States and Britain, the Council of Europe human rights organisation said.

The AI Convention, which has been in the works for years and was adopted in May after discussions between 57 countries, addresses the risks AI may pose, while promoting responsible innovation.

“This Convention is a major step to ensuring that these new technologies can be harnessed without eroding our oldest values, like human rights and the rule of law,” Britain’s justice minister, Shabana Mahmood, said in a statement.

The AI Convention mainly focuses on the protection of human rights of people affected by AI systems and is separate from the EU AI Act, which entered into force last month. More

6 Comments on Europe Pulling Us into A “Watered Down” AI Treaty

  1. “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
    -Frank Herbert, “Dune”

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  2. “… like human rights and the rule of law …”
    That’s funny – the serfs of the EU have NO rights and the EU’s “rule of law” has long been dead. Ask anyone in the EU who tries to speak a truth or who even silently prays for the souls of the murdered innocents.

    The EU is disintegrating under the cataclysmic influx of izlamic rat-people.

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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