While the Model European Parliament session in Athens held its first committee meeting, delegates from different countries discussed the usage and development of AI in the European Union. With the emergence of artificial intelligence as a significant force, various concerns have been raised, including data privacy, security, and ethical complexities.<\/p>\n
AI has been improving and evolving, rendering us unable to keep up with its rapid pace. How can the European Union ensure the accountable and responsible use of AI in supporting human activity?<\/p>\n
Recently, we had the pleasure of attending a committee meeting that discussed the many different risks of Artificial Intelligence. The committee was deciding on keeping or merging issues that they found are an essential part of the civilization in Europe. They were rephrasing issues, finetuning their IC\u2019s and merging them. IC\u2019s are problems that they think need to be solved in order to have a better, stronger and safer Europe.<\/p>\n
A lot of different proposals were made, going from the all-known ChatGPT to things that are less well-known to the public. Thanks to them, awareness is spreading, even to people less reachable in society.<\/p>\n
This meeting also included the 2024 AI Act, a not unimportant act to improve the functioning of the internal market by laying down a uniform legal framework in particular for the development, the placing on the market, the putting into service and the use of Artificial Intelligence systems in the Union. Including the Union values, to promote the uptake of human centric and trustworthy AI. This Act was published June 13th, and after only 4 months, our delegation is trying to improve this Act. And doing this by listening to the needs of all the EU countries and even guest delegations.<\/p>\n
Interview with a delegate<\/b><\/p>\n
We also had the opportunity to talk with a delegate from Denmark, who gave us more insight into what was happening at this specific meeting.<\/p>\n
She was happy to tell us that the meetings started out great. However, there were some disagreements between the countries on various topics, but apart from that, they had been a great team. She stated that the disagreements were very interesting, because when people propose their point of view, you\u2019re not the only one with a strong opinion on that topic, you get to know how they think, and you also get to know the cultural differences in the European Union.<\/p>\n
The delegate also told us that everyone was really \u2018getting into it\u2019 and that everyone knew what they were talking about. They also had a professional coming in to talk about AI, who talked about the work that he does. After that, they could ask him some questions.<\/p>\n
The delegate also mentioned that \u2018Trying to form this resolution paper is trying to deal with stuff that might come up in the future. Learning from the professor was one thing, but learning from the other delegations was also quite an inspiring experience. I would nearly say that I\u2019ve learnt more from the other delegations than from the expert.\u2019<\/p>\n
She proposed some risks that you can face while using AI, because with every positive aspect goes a negative one.<\/p>\n
This committee meeting was a successful one since the delegates worked on the problems regarding the issue. Now they will have to do the hard work, finding out how they can solve the many important problems regarding this futuristic but very important topic.<\/p>\n
Myrre De Nies, Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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