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The European AI Office, set up
within the European Commission, must involve civil society, the
academic world and companies in drafting codes of conduct for
the implementation of requirements for general-purpose AI models
(GPAI) and for systemic risk models, according to a letter
signed by a group of members of the European Parliament,
including an MEP who drafted the AI Act, Brando Benifei, a few
weeks after the regulation on artificial intelligence came into
effect.
The AI Act dictates obligations for GPAI model providers and
gives the European AI Office the role of implementing and
supervising the new rules for such models, with the power of
requesting documentation, conducting an evaluation of models,
investigating reports and asking providers to adopt corrective
measures.
In particular, GPAI models that don't present systemic risks
will be subjected to a few limited requirements, for example on
transparency, while the others will have to respect stricter
rules.
In the letter, the MEPs stressed the role the Office can have
in "influencing the global governance of AI" with the drafting
of codes of conduct for GPAI models and expressed concern for
the fact that the Commission intends to "initially involve only
interested providers of GPAI models with the risk of enabling
them to define concrete practices on their own terms".
The members of the European Parliament said this "unilateral
approach" could "compromise the development of a solid and
influential code of conduct at a global level" and thus
suggested an "inclusive process" involving "different voices
from companies, civil society, the academic world and the
interested parties".
"Enabling companies that dominate the market to influence
this process in an isolated way risks creating a restricted and
short-sighted perspective that goes against our objectives for
EU models of AI development", they observed.
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