European Commission president says Europe should lead efforts towards AI global framework
The President of the European Commission called on Europe to lead the way on a new global framework for AI, together with partners.
In her 2023 State of the Union Address, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that ‘Europe, together with partners, should lead the way on a new global framework for AI’.
President von der Leyen explained that such a framework would outline ‘minimum global standards for safe and ethical use of AI’ and would need to be built on three pillars:
- Guardrails: Ensuring that AI is developed in a human-centric, transparent, and responsible manner.
- Governance: The first step would be to put in place a ‘global approach to understanding the impact of AI in our societies’, potentially through an IPCC-like body for AI to look at the risks and benefits of the technology. This would then allow for the development of a ‘fats and globally coordinated response’.
- Guiding innovation in a responsible way.
Von der Leyen also announced a decision to open up the EU’s high-performance computers to AI start-ups.
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