EU Parliament Blocks AI Features Over Cyber, Privacy Fears (politico.eu)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/02/16/1738256/eu-parliament-blocks-ai-features-over-cyber-privacy-fears
- Source link: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-parliament-blocks-ai-features-over-cyber-privacy-fears/
> The European Parliament has [1]disabled AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity and data protection concerns, according to an internal email seen by POLITICO. The chamber emailed its members on Monday to say it had disabled "built-in artificial intelligence features" on corporate tablets after its IT department assessed it couldn't guarantee the security of the tools' data.
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> "Some of these features use cloud services to carry out tasks that could be handled locally, sending data off the device," the Parliament's e-MEP tech support desk said in the email. "As these features continue to evolve and become available on more devices, the full extent of data shared with service providers is still being assessed. Until this is fully clarified, it is considered safer to keep such features disabled."
[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-parliament-blocks-ai-features-over-cyber-privacy-fears/
Treat EU legislators like 12 year olds (Score:2)
EU legislators are imbeciles, who regularly vote for nonsense.
The European Parliament last week defeated an amendment stating that only women can get pregnant.
As well as removing their AI access, they should remove their access to social media, so they vote based on facts and not trending Instagram posts.
Re: (Score:2)
Why would you need a regulation to say such a thing? What possible purpose could it serve? Are you suggesting that because they didn't vote to confirm this now men can get pregnant? Without knowing what the proposal actually was, or even if it exists outside some bigot's imagination, I suspect that this was part of some wider amendment designed to bake bigotry into regulation. They included that particular clause so that when it inevitsbly got voted down they could cite this to make it seem silly
Re: Treat EU legislators like 12 year olds (Score:2)
The EU parliament is also one of few legislative entities in the Western world that care about consumer protection. I don't agree with everything it produces, but that doesn't mean they're always wrong. Although twelve year olds tend to think in such absolutes.
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After looking further into this, it was indeed an amendment put in by bigots to try and wreck a piece of legislation they don't agree with but know they are in the minority on. The legislation was to cement recognition of trans women as women, and trans men as men. This amendment could have been used to bypass this because if passed, then if a trans man can get pregnant they would be a women not a man and this could then also be used to argue the vice-versa. It was an attempt to scupper a vote they were goi
Not interested in AI (Score:3)
I'm (presently) not interested in AI yet I just received a mail by OpenAI explaining a change in their privacy policy.
I really wonder where they got my Email address and name...
Good (Score:3)
This should be the default on all devices. AI features should be a selectable add-on.
Re: Good (Score:1)
But why are they just now doing this?