Everyone is caught up in ridiculous AI mythology, and misunderstanding the nature of the tech.
AI is just one approach to solving a problem, and will invariably make up just a small part of more complex systems involving mostly classically approaches.
Not only is AI not hugely special, nothing we do or use is mostly 'AI' to begin with.
From the article:
"AI systems used for indiscriminate surveillance applied in a generalised manner"
So does this mean as long as we're not using Deep Learning, we can indiscriminately surveil?
And what if the 'surveillance system' doesn't use AI, but the cameras themselves have AI embedded within to adjust focus? Does that count?
What if the system doesn't use AI, but the supporting services do?
It's basically ridiculous.
If the government wants to regulate 'mass surveillance' - that sounds like a good thing so do that.
If they want to ensure privacy in certain domains - great - but it has nothing to do with 'AI'.
Edit:
Futhermore:
"Mr Leufer added that the proposals should "be expanded to include all public sector AI systems, regardless of their assigned risk level".
"This is because people typically do not have a choice about whether or not to interact with an AI system in the public sector.""
This is laughably bad, because again, there is not such thing as an 'AI System'.
A broad ban on on AI in the public sector would almost guarantee European stagnation in every sector, for no good reason at all.
Will they ban Google Search in public service? Google assistant? Google navigation? Those use AI.
Will they ban AI signal processing for anything related to government?
They'll have to ban Tesla as well, there's a ton of AI in every unit.
Will there be a single automobile in 10 years that won't have AI components? The EU is going to ban all of them from use in public service?
Even today, AI is almost universal in every day systems, that is only going to increase quite a lot.
In 5 years, you literally won't be able to use any tech without it touching some form of AI.
Mr. Leufeur has no understanding of what he is talking about.
Effective in doing what?
Everyone is caught up in ridiculous AI mythology, and misunderstanding the nature of the tech.
AI is just one approach to solving a problem, and will invariably make up just a small part of more complex systems involving mostly classically approaches.
Not only is AI not hugely special, nothing we do or use is mostly 'AI' to begin with.
From the article:
"AI systems used for indiscriminate surveillance applied in a generalised manner"
So does this mean as long as we're not using Deep Learning, we can indiscriminately surveil?
And what if the 'surveillance system' doesn't use AI, but the cameras themselves have AI embedded within to adjust focus? Does that count?
What if the system doesn't use AI, but the supporting services do?
It's basically ridiculous.
If the government wants to regulate 'mass surveillance' - that sounds like a good thing so do that.
If they want to ensure privacy in certain domains - great - but it has nothing to do with 'AI'.
Edit:
Futhermore:
"Mr Leufer added that the proposals should "be expanded to include all public sector AI systems, regardless of their assigned risk level".
"This is because people typically do not have a choice about whether or not to interact with an AI system in the public sector.""
This is laughably bad, because again, there is not such thing as an 'AI System'.
A broad ban on on AI in the public sector would almost guarantee European stagnation in every sector, for no good reason at all.
Will they ban Google Search in public service? Google assistant? Google navigation? Those use AI.
Will they ban AI signal processing for anything related to government?
They'll have to ban Tesla as well, there's a ton of AI in every unit.
Will there be a single automobile in 10 years that won't have AI components? The EU is going to ban all of them from use in public service?
Even today, AI is almost universal in every day systems, that is only going to increase quite a lot.
In 5 years, you literally won't be able to use any tech without it touching some form of AI.
Mr. Leufeur has no understanding of what he is talking about.