The European Commission has set up a new research unit to investigate the impact of algorithms created and used by prominent online platforms and search engines such as Facebook and Google.
The research unit, called the European Center for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT), was launched on April 18 to help the European Commission identify and address potential risks posed by these platforms.
ECAT will be incorporated into the existing European Union Joint Research Center (JRC), which conducts research in a wide range of areas including artificial intelligence (AI).
The team is made up of “data scientists, AI experts, social scientists and legal experts” who analyze and evaluate AI-powered algorithms used by big tech companies.
AI-based programs are built using a series of complex algorithms. That said, ECAT will also look into the algorithms underpinning AI chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which it believes could eventually replace search engines.
The European Commission said on its website that ECAT will conduct an accountability and transparency audit of algorithms as required by the Digital Services Act (DSA), a set of European Union rules that will come into force on 16 November 2022. claim.
According to Thierry Breton, the EU’s internal market commissioner, ECAT “looks under the hood” of large search engines and online platforms to “see how their algorithms work and how they contribute to the spread of illegal and harmful content.” to see if they are contributing in any way.
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In an open letter signed on April 16, nearly a dozen EU politicians called for the “safe” development of AI.
Lawmakers call on U.S. President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to convene a summit on AI and agree on a set of governing principles for the development, management and deployment of technology. I was.
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has also had problems developing AI, arguing in an April 17 interview with Fox News that AI chatbots like ChatGPT have a left-wing bias, calling it “TruthGPT. said it was developing an alternative called .
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