A Conservative Approach to Digital Regulation
Washington is rushing to regulate the digital economy, but America’s global technological leadership depends on accelerating innovation, not slowing it […]
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Washington is rushing to regulate the digital economy, but America’s global technological leadership depends on accelerating innovation, not slowing it […]
While it can be easy to overlook implementation and enforcement of new tech and digital rules once they have been adopted by EU lawmakers, recent experience underlines the need to keep a close eye on these important final steps in the process. Because this is when regulators and companies test the practicality of tech rules, and when European citizens actually ought to reap the benefits.
The EU’s AI Act is the first global policy framework to regulate AI comprehensively, aiming to ensure AI systems are safe and trustworthy. It was originally supposed to introduce a risk-based approach, tailoring the strictness of rules to the risk level posed by certain AI applications. In reality, however, the agreed legal text suffers from shortcomings.
Changes made by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU to proposals for new tech and digital rules initially put forward by the European Commission are still the least scrutinised step of the EU legislative process.
Any new EU digital legislation initiated in the future should only seek to address specific and quantifiable problems or gaps that Europeans are facing on a daily basis. Moreover, making sure that new rules are well designed, substantiated by evidence, and focus on a concrete problem will be essential to preventing many unintended consequences down the line.
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