AISN #29: Progress on the EU AI Act

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A Provisional Agreement on the EU AI Act

On December 8th, the EU Parliament, Council, and Commission reached a provisional agreement on the EU AI Act. The agreement regulates the deployment of AI in high risk applications such as hiring and credit pricing, and it bans private companies from building and deploying AI for unacceptable applications such as social credit scoring and individualized predictive policing.

Despite lobbying by some AI startups against regulation of foundation models, the agreement contains risk assessment and mitigation requirements for all general purpose AI systems. Specific requirements apply to AI systems trained with >1025 FLOP such as Google's Gemini and OpenAI's GPT-4.

Minimum basic transparency requirements for all GPAI. The provisional agreement regulates foundation models — using the [...]

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Outline:

(00:06) A Provisional Agreement on the EU AI Act

(04:55) Questions about Research Standards in AI Safety

(06:48) The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for Copyright Infringement

(10:34) Links

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First published:
January 4th, 2024

Source:
https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/aisn-29-progress-on-the-eu-ai-act

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