LONDON (AP) – The European Union’s consumer protection group on Tuesday called on regulators to investigate the kind of artificial intelligence underpinning systems like ChatGPT, citing the risk of leaving people vulnerable. And the delay before Brock’s groundbreaking AI regulation came into effect.
In a coordinated effort, 13 watchdog groups have sent letters to domestic consumer, data protection, competition and product safety authorities, warning them of various concerns about generative artificial intelligence..
The Transatlantic Coalition of Consumer Organizations also wrote to US President Joe Biden, urging him to take action to protect consumers. Protects against possible harm caused by generative AI.
Europe leads the world in efforts to regulate artificial intelligenceThis has been made more urgent by the rise of new breeds of artificial intelligence that give AI chatbots like ChatGPT the ability to generate text, images, video and voice that mimic human tasks.
The EU is putting the finishing touches on the world’s first comprehensive set of rules However, it is expected to take up to two years to see results.
The group called on European and US leaders to leverage both existing laws and introduce new ones to address the harm generative AI can cause..
They cited a Norwegian Consumer Council report outlining the dangers posed by AI chatbots, including providing false medical information, manipulating people, fabricating news articles, and illegally using vast amounts of personal data collected from the internet. quoted..
Consumer groups in Italy, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, Greece and Denmark, among others, said that while the EU AI law would address some of the concerns, applications would not open for several years, leaving “consumers unprotected from technology.” will become,” he warned. Meanwhile, regulation is poor and developing rapidly. ”
Some authorities are already taking action.Italian privacy watchdog orders ChatGPT maker OpenAI to suspend processing We collected your personal information when investigating a possible data breach. France, Spain and Canada are also considering OpenAI and ChatGPT.
