EU moves ahead with draft law to regulate AI

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The European Parliament on Wednesday passed the first draft of the AI Act, a proposed law that focuses on the safe development and application of artificially intelligent systems, to ensure AI tools respect international human rights laws.

The act, which has served as an example for other nations to develop their own AI regulations, restricts the use of technologies like facial recognition software and requires transparency from AI developers to share more data used to create their systems, like, for example, ChatGPT or Bing chat.

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