EU consumer protection groups are urging regulators to investigate the types of artificial intelligence underpinning systems such as ChatGPT that underpin the risk.
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London — EU consumer protection groups urged regulators on Tuesday to investigate the type of artificial intelligence underpinning systems like ChatGPT, citing risks that leave people vulnerable and delays before the block’s groundbreaking AI rules take effect. We do.
In a coordinated effort, 13 watchdog groups wrote to their national consumer, data protection, competition and product safety authorities alerting them to a range of concerns about generative artificial intelligence.
A transatlantic coalition of consumer groups also wrote to US President Joe Biden asking him to take action to protect consumers from potential harm caused by generative AI.
Europe has led the world in efforts to regulate artificial intelligence, which has gained urgency with the rise of a new breed of artificial intelligence that allows AI chatbots such as ChatGPT to generate text, images, video and audio in a manner similar to human work. gives the power of
The European Union is finalizing the world’s first set of comprehensive rules for technology, but they are not expected to take effect for two years.
The groups called on European and US leaders to use both existing legislation and introduce new legislation to address the harm caused by generative AI.
He cited a report by the Norwegian Consumer Council, which outlined the dangers of AI chatbots, including providing false medical information, manipulating people, creating news articles, and illegally accessing large amounts of personal data from the Internet. to do is included.
Consumer groups in countries including Italy, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, Greece and Denmark have warned that the EU’s AI Act addresses some concerns, but they will not begin to apply for several years, “leaving consumers vulnerable to the technology.” Except that which is meanwhile insufficiently regulated, and is developing at great speed.
Some officials have already taken action. Italy’s privacy watchdog ordered ChatGPT maker OpenAI to temporarily stop processing user personal information while it investigated a possible data breach. France, Spain and Canada are also considering OpenAI and ChatGPT.
