BRUSSELS, 24 May. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The European Commission counts on Google to promote “voluntary” standards for the development of Artificial Intelligence by European and non-EU companies before the European Union can agree on the regulation in which it works for this technology but that Brussels does not expect be up and running by 2025.
This was announced by the Commissioner for Telecommunications, Thierry Breton, who met this Tuesday in Brussels with the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, who was later also received by the community vice president responsible for Justice and Consumption, Vera Jourova .
Community sources indicated that Pichai and Jourova also addressed the issue of the use of Artificial Intelligence and agreed on the “impact” that this language can have on the spread of disinformation, so “everyone must prepare for a new wave of risks generated by AI” and must be faced, for example, with greater transparency that makes it clear when a message is generated artificially.
In this regard, the sources add, the person in charge of Google wanted to emphasize that the North American company already has “safeguards” in its AI models and that it continues to invest in this area to guarantee the security of new products.
The ease with which propaganda and disinformation are spread on the networks, including through Google, in favor of Russia is something that also worries Brussels, for which Jourova has warned the technology giant that she expects a greater effort from her. when rendering accounts within the framework of the Code of Good Practices against Disinformation to which Google is voluntarily a party.
The Community Executive plans to publish new reports in July on the presence of disinformation on platforms and the measures taken, for which reason Jourova has asked Google to collaborate by offering detailed information and to improve researchers’ access to data that allow the dissemination to be evaluated of fake news.
Another of the issues addressed by the community vice president with the person in charge of Google has been the one referred to the European and national elections, due to the risks of misinformation interference, on the one hand, and, on the other, to ask the company to dedicate more resources to the smallest languages in the EU.
