The European Union has issued a new law to regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, aimed at protecting users and ensuring integrity and transparency.
The new law, considered the first of its kind in the world, prohibits a number of uses of artificial intelligence that it deems to violate the privacy of citizens of 27 member states of the bloc.
1- Fraudulent systems
The new artificial intelligence law prohibits the use of artificial intelligence to develop digital systems that manipulate the thinking patterns of a person or group of people in a way that affects their ability to think, judge, and make decisions.
There are different forms of these systems, such as the artificial intelligence algorithms used by social media networks, such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, to analyze people’s usage patterns on their platforms, with the aim of understanding their way of thinking.
ويرى الاتحاد الأوروبي أن بعض الجهات قد تلجأ إلى “دس أفكار لتغيير الرأي العام في دولة ما”.
2- Exploitative systems
European law prohibits the use of artificial intelligence to exploit a person, group, or class of people, based on their age, disability, or socioeconomic status, in order to distort the behavior of that person, or any person belonging to that group, in a way that causes significant harm to that person or any other person.
For example, some scammers may use artificial intelligence to identify the personal and age characteristics of their app user, and if it is confirmed that he is young, for example, a child, or has a disability, he completes hidden financial transactions within the app, relying on the inability of these groups to distinguish.
3- Biased systems
The law prohibits the use of artificial intelligence to develop systems that evaluate people based on their social behavior and classify them accordingly, which could lead to unfair treatment.
An example of this use that violates the new law is that some entertainment clubs resort to an artificial intelligence system that collects and analyzes data from real-time surveillance cameras to identify the general features of the people who frequent it, to ensure that they meet the entry requirements or not.
4- Crime prediction systems
The new law also criminalizes the use of smart systems that predict people will commit crimes, based on details of their personal lives, behaviors and characteristics, without any concrete and strong evidence to prove it.
However, the law exempts from this criminalization smart systems established by states, security institutions, and law enforcement agencies to collect information and data and track suspects.
5. Facial recognition systems
European law has focused on criminalizing the use of artificial intelligence to create intelligent systems for the purpose of expanding or creating rules for facial recognition, whether captured via television surveillance cameras or via images and videos circulating on the Internet.
6- Systems for inferring emotions
The new European law prohibits the use of artificial intelligence systems to infer the feelings of a normal person in work or educational environments, except in cases where the artificial intelligence system is intended to be used or put on the market for medical or safety reasons.
7- Biometric classification systems
The law prohibits classifying people based on their biometric data, such as facial and eye prints, skin color, facial and body features, to infer their race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, or sexual orientation.
However, he excluded from this ban any classification of legally acquired biometric datasets, such as photographs, based on biometric data or classification of biometric data in the field of law enforcement.
8- Biometric identification systems in public places
يحظر القانون استخدام أنظمة التعرف البيومتري الفوري في الأماكن العامة لأهداف إنفاء القانون، إلا في حالات محددة مثل البحث عن ضحايا الاختطاف أو الاتجار بالبشر أو الاستغلال الجنسي للبشر، فضلاً عن البحث عن الأشخاص المفقودين، وكذلك مواجهة أي تهديد لحياة الأشخاص الطبيعيين أو سلامتهم الجسدية أو مثل “الهجمات الإرهابية”، وتحديد موقع أو هوية شخص يشتبه في ارتكابه جريمة جنائية، لغرض إجراء تحقيق جنائي أو مقاضاة أو تنفيذ عقوبة جنائية.
Source: Al-Sharq
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