Re:EU lawmakers take first steps toward tougher AI rules
by nbaxc on Saturday May 13, 2023 @12:32PM
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It is not about conviction. It is about harassment and defamation, for example in the following forms:
- Police stalking (legal in the Netherlands, practiced but denied in many other countries).
- Police asking neighbors questions, thereby ruining your reputation.
- Database sharing with e.g. the U.S., leading to further scrutiny (or denial of entry) abroad.
- Not getting a government job.
And if the models are only used to know where to police, then my response is that that we've been using that for centuries now. It's called statistics, and can be as simple as bloody counting how many people lose their wallet in a busy street. Get some cops there, arrest the pick-pockets. That's a good thing, and it doesn't become "evil" just because somebody calls it "AI".
But this is just politicians piggy-backing on some popular fear-mongering about some new tech. It's unlikely to go anywhere. It may be rolled out again in a few months or years when these politicians need some attention again.