When the European Union said so it was necessary to establish regulations for artificial intelligenceand stated that his intention was to act exceptionally quickly to respond to this need, we had a pretty clear signal that, if possible, such a standard would see the light of day before the end of this year.

I know that in other areas talking about a year can seem like a long time, but we have to take into account that when setting regulations the European Union must have the opinion of all the countries that make it up, which presupposes the most difficult exercise of negotiation and diplomacy, because in many cases the interests of one state and the other are in conflict, so it is extremely difficult to find a position that would reasonably satisfy the majority in order to approve the final document in this way. In other words: in this context, achieving regulation in less than a year is a record speed.

The regulatory process is also quite complex it consists of several stages, all of which have their own deadlines, so the speed of quickly meeting each of them is key if, as I said before, the intention is to respond to this new need by the end of the year. And the good news is that despite many forecasts and quite a lot of skepticism about these intentions, a very important step has been taken today in this regard.

As we can read on his official website, The European Parliament is ready to discuss the first artificial intelligence lawafter the approval of the first proposal, which begins to shape the said regulation. The text, which was voted on in the European institution, received 499 votes in favor, compared to just 28 votes against, and a total of 93 members abstained, which represents a remarkable level of support for a document prepared in such a short period of time, compared to the average.

The proposal contains some uses of artificial intelligence which, if this text continues, will be banned in the European Unionmany of them related to the biometric identification of citizens, the introduction of a classification of high-risk uses, puts the spotlight on artificial intelligence systems used to influence voters and the outcome of elections, and also lays down a number of obligations for universal systems.

In this sense, those responsible for said models are obliged assess and possibly mitigate the amount of risk (for health, safety, fundamental rights, rule of law, etc.). They will also have the obligation to register in the register, which will be made available for this purpose, and especially the hot spot, orforces generative AI models to identify content created in this sense.