Similar to the Digital Services Act and GDPR, the AI Act attempts to imprint the EU’s value system on technologies not yet created and scarcely understood.
We are marked from the day of our birth with an end date; all is indeed vanity. To forget our mortality is thus to lose something human, to become inhuman.
The Back Rooms, a popular bit of Internet folklore, reminds us of the recurring horror motif of a reality adjacent to ours, familiar but uncanny, whose real-world congealment we may soon be facing.
“BEUC’s concern is that it would take years before the AI Act takes effect, leaving consumers at risk of harm from a technology which is not sufficiently regulated,” the consumer organization said.
ChatGPT keeps sending EU lawmakers back to the drawing board, as regulating a technology whose implications cannot be fully grasped yet can be quite tricky.
There must be a golden path between politics hijacking the freedom of information and rogue programs running amok on the internet. The outcome of this watershed moment in humanity’s history depends on our ability to find it.
