I feel the same way. Also, despite my earlier email, it's still something to keep an eye on; e.g. MEPs are pondering adding <https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/CJ40-PR-731563_EN.html> - internet security, - text-generation (generating things "such as news articles, opinion articles, novels, scripts, and scientific articles"), - image/video deepfakes, and - "AI systems intended to be used by children in ways that have a significant impact on their personal development, including through personalised education or their cognitive or emotional development."
as high risk AI. On Fri, 30 Sept 2022 at 17:07, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for that note, Phil! To be perfectly honest I’ve found this > particular rulemaking convoluted even by my low standards for EU > rulemaking, and have not had the time to do a proper, end-to-end sit down > with the docs, so this is a very useful clarification. > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 9:04 AM Phil Bradley-Schmieg < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Luis, >> >> Before diving down that rabbit hole, at least so far as WMF ML is >> concerned, we should remember that the Directive would apply to *high >> risk* AI systems. This will be a legally-defined category of systems. >> Exactly what that will encompass is still up for debate, but you can at >> least see the sort thing the European Commission proposers have in mind - >> see Annexes II and III here: >> https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52021PC0206#document2 >> >> Regards, >> Phil >> >> On Fri, 30 Sept 2022 at 16:28, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 5:39 AM Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> ====== >>>> >>>> AI Liability >>>> >>>> ====== >>>> >>>> The European Commission presented a new AI Liability Directive. [4] The >>>> stated goal is to complement the AI Act in making sure people and companies >>>> who were harmed by high-risk AI systems (think recruitment, admissions, >>>> autonomous drones, self-driving cars) are able to seek damages. Under the >>>> proposed text the burden of proof on the claimant would be reversed under >>>> certain conditions, as it would be very hard for an outside person to >>>> understand how the AI algorithm works. Also, courts will have the explicit >>>> right to request companies to disclose technical information about their >>>> algorithms. >>>> >>> >>> I would love to see any smart commentary on this that people have seen — >>> so far I’ve seen very little. Bonus if it’s from European attorneys who are >>> trying to explain EU product liability context to American audiences :) >>> >>> Potentially an important wrinkle on this for this audience: per the >>> explanatory documents: >>> >>> “In order not to hamper innovation or research, this Directive should >>> not apply to free and open-source software *developed … outside the >>> course of a commercial activity**.”* >>> >>> Emphasis mine - does this mean that open source developed by companies >>> (such as, at this point, much of the php stack WMF relies on, and at least >>> part of the python ML stack that I assume WMF ML uses) is *not exempted >>> *from this directive? >>> >>> “This is in particular the case for software...that is openly shared and >>> freely accessible, usable, modifiable and redistributable.” >>> >>> Similarly: much ML software is *not *freely usable in the OSI sense, >>> because of ethical field of use restrictions. Is ethical ML *more *liable >>> than fully free ML? >>> >>> Related: this is just an experiment, and I don’t know how long I can >>> keep it up, but I’m writing a newsletter on the overlap of open and ml that >>> I suspect might be of interest to some folks here: https://openml.fyi >>> >>> Yours in open- >>> Luis >>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >> >> >>> Publicpolicy mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Publicpolicy mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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