{"id":12353,"date":"2023-12-09T11:57:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T16:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12353"},"modified":"2023-12-09T11:57:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T16:57:32","slug":"surprisingly-sensible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12353","title":{"rendered":"Surprisingly sensible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/what-are-europes-landmark-ai-regulations-2023-12-09\/\">summary by Reuters<\/a> of the European Union&#8217;s proposed regulatory framework for AI.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/what-are-europes-landmark-ai-regulations-2023-12-09\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12354\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/robocat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/robocat.jpg 512w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/robocat-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/robocat-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/robocat-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/robocat-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/robocat-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/robocat-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/robocat-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I dreaded this: incompetent politicians, populist opportunists, meddling in things that they themselves don&#8217;t fully understand, regulating things that need no regulation while not paying attention to the real threats.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as always, the process moves at a snail&#8217;s pace. By the time the new regulations are expected to come into force, 2026, the framework will likely be hopelessly obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>Still: Light transparency requirements as a general principle, severe restrictions on the use of AI for law enforcement and surveillance, strict regulation for high-risk systems&#8230; I am compelled to admit, the attitude this reflects makes a surprising amount of good sense.<\/p>\n<p>Almost as if the framework was crafted by an AI&#8230;<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12353' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking at the summary by Reuters of the European Union&#8217;s proposed regulatory framework for AI. I dreaded this: incompetent politicians, populist opportunists, meddling in things that they themselves don&#8217;t fully understand, regulating things that need no regulation while not paying attention to the real threats. Perhaps I was wrong. Of course, as always, <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12353' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybernetics","category-politics","category-58-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12353"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12360,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353\/revisions\/12360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}