European AI Act: How to make Europe world class in AI?
"Europe may not have been the leader in the last wave of digitisation, but she has everything to lead the next one," said Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President for a Digital Europe, when the Commission presented the blueprint for a European Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) law in April 2021. The new regulation should make Europe the global hub for reliable artificial intelligence (AI). We are doing it our European way, between the US which is focusing on the advancement of technology and China which is misusing AI to excessively control and oppress citizens.
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Tom Vandenkendelaere
Tom Vandenkendelaere (CD&V) is EPP leader for a resolution on the use of AI in law enforcement and a member of the European Parliament committees leading the negotiations on the European AI law. This makes the Belgian MEP ideally placed to give a first insight into the European Union's plans to regulate AI and make Europe world-class in the development of safe, reliable and human-centred Artificial Intelligence.
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