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Debate: Global Convergence on Generative AI
Date: THURSDAY, 13 JULY 2023
Speaker: Svenja Hahn
Political group: Renew
Country: Finland
Language: DE

Herr Präsident, liebe Kollegen! Das Potenzial von künstlicher Intelligenz ist so groß, das können wir uns heute noch gar nicht vorstellen. Mit dem KI-Gesetz wollen wir deshalb vor allen Dingen einen Rahmen setzen: Welche Art von Anwendungen wollen wir in einer liberalen Demokratie haben? Wenn wir damit ein Gesetz schaffen, das für alle Zeit alle möglichen Herausforderungen abdecken wird – nein. Müssen wir das machen? Nein! Ich glaube, wir müssen eher gucken: Wie sieht die technologische Entwicklung aus? Gibt es tatsächliche Gesetzeslücken? Und dann müssen wir die schließen. Aber genau das Gegenteil habe ich erlebt, als ChatGPT immer größer wurde. Da wurde sehr schnell der Ruf sehr laut, dass wir generative KI möglichst streng regulieren müssen, am besten vielleicht sogar noch verbieten, denn man wüsste ja nicht genau, was man damit machen kann, und das wäre ja hochgefährlich. Liebe Kollegen, aus Angst nach Verboten zu rufen, das sollten wir nicht tun. Wir sollten doch lieber gucken: Wie können wir zum Fortschrittskontinent werden? Wie können wir Offenheit für Technologie und Freude an Innovation so nutzen, dass es uns als Gesellschaft ausmacht, dass es uns kennzeichnet, dass wir durch Fortschritt auch unseren Wohlstand sichern? Aber wir dürfen natürlich auch nicht naiv sein. Wir dürfen nicht unsere Augen verschließen davor, dass Chance auch immer mit einem Risiko daherkommt. Denn in dem Konflikt unserer Zeit – Autokratie versus Demokratie – wird der Umgang mit Technologie ganz entscheidend sein. Wird KI ein Mittel, das unser Leben erleichtert? Hilft generative KI mir in meinem Job, macht sie mir Kochvorschläge oder hilft sie mir bei der Urlaubsplanung? Oder wird künstliche Intelligenz ein Mittel zur Unterdrückung der Bevölkerung, wie wir das in China sehen? Wird generative KI zum Brandbeschleuniger für Desinformation und für einen Angriff auf Demokratie? Ich glaube, unser Ziel muss es sein, dass es die Demokratien sind, die den Maßstab setzen, wie wir als Gesellschaft das Potenzial künstlicher Intelligenz nutzen wollen. Dafür ist es meiner Meinung nach absolut essenziell, dass wir mit unseren internationalen Partnern vorangehen. Die Zusammenarbeit wie beim
Debate: Global Convergence on Generative AI
Date: THURSDAY, 13 JULY 2023
Speaker: Sergey Lagodinsky
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: France
Language: DE

Herr Präsident! Die KI-Verordnung war noch nicht einmal beschlossen, da hat die Europäische Kommission schon Initiativen auf den Weg gebracht, die sie überholen. Jedenfalls konnte man so die übereifrige Öffentlichkeitsarbeit der Kommission zum  Wir müssen uns, liebe Freundinnen und Freunde, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, auf eine gemeinsame Sache einigen. Ich hoffe, das ist hier unumstritten. Das KI-Gesetz, das wir gerade beschlossen haben, ist die Grundlage unserer KI-Strategie. Als Ko-Gesetzgeberinnen und Gesetzgeber schulden wir doch den Bürgerinnen und Bürgern, schulden wir den Unternehmen das, wofür wir gewählt worden sind: Politik und Gesellschaft Gewissheit durch Innovation, aber auch Orientierung durch Regulierung zu geben. Das ist unsere Aufgabe. Das muss doch klar sein. Wir dürfen das Momentum nicht verschenken, nicht zerreden durch egomane Initiativen, die sich gegenseitig überbieten. Wir müssen eine effektive und gerechte Regelung für KI weltweit einsetzen, basierend auf unserem Gesetz. Darauf haben wir uns als Antwort auf Forderungen nach Moratorien und Verboten geeinigt. Wir sind nicht Elon Musk, wir sind nicht italienische Regierung, wir sind aber auch nicht China oder Russland, wo scheinbar alles geht, was Despoten nützt. Der Einsatz für gemeinsame Regeln im Rahmen der KI kann helfen – kann helfen, muss aber auf der Basis der europäischen Regelungen stattfinden und darf diese nicht aushöhlen. Das ist die gemeinsame Botschaft, die aus dieser heutigen Diskussion ausgeht, und das ist auch gut so!
Debate: Global Convergence on Generative AI
Date: THURSDAY, 13 JULY 2023
Speaker: Adam Bielan
Political group: ECR
Country: France
Language: EN

Mr President, late last year, generative AI have taken us by surprise. And while the technologies, capabilities and applications will soon become difficult to overestimate, prevention is key to frame the future developments in a way that is both satisfactory in terms of safety and reliability, while allowing the quickening of economic applications for European-based solutions. Generative AI comes in a diverse set of flowers. On the negative side, our biggest worries are disinformation that can be produced and on a bigger scale than ever before, but that also can be countered and filtered against by using AI assistant tools, and the lack of accountability and possible abuses of intellectual property that are omnipresent in the context of AI. On the positive one, generative AI have the potential to bridge gaps between public administrations and the wider public by means of specialised chatbots, as well as all the trade and capability applications that derive from such a technology. As such, we would be in favour of developing and applying shared standards in accord with our global partners at the highest possible level and wherever possible, in order to create a level playing field for businesses and to prevent the establishment of unfair advantages between companies or countries. We are in favour of defining standards along the lines of those established previously within the framework of the OECD for practical applications and to further comparability between regions and business sectors. Finally, I would like to remind that you that shared standards are the best possible guarantee for consumers and producers alike.
Debate: Global Convergence on Generative AI
Date: THURSDAY, 13 JULY 2023
Speaker: Elena Kountoura
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: EL

Κύριε Πρόεδρε, κύριοι συνάδελφοι, η τεχνητή νοημοσύνη εξελίσσεται με πολύ γρήγορους ρυθμούς και η δυναμική ανάπτυξής της καθιστά εξαιρετικά δύσκολη τη ρύθμισή της από την ευρωπαϊκή νομοθεσία. Η περίπτωση των παραγωγικών συστημάτων τεχνητής νοημοσύνης είναι χαρακτηριστική. Η ανάδειξή τους, αφότου είχαν ξεκινήσει οι διαπραγματεύσεις για την πράξη της τεχνητής νοημοσύνης, είχε ως αποτέλεσμα την υιοθέτηση περιορισμένων υποχρεώσεων που αφορούν κυρίως τη διαφάνεια και τον μετριασμό των κινδύνων διάκρισης και της δημιουργίας παράνομου περιεχομένου.  Δεν υπάρχει αμφιβολία ότι οι προσπάθειες για παγκόσμια σύγκλιση, όπως στην περίπτωση της ανάπτυξης του κώδικα δεοντολογίας, είναι προς τη σωστή κατεύθυνση, ωστόσο δεν είναι αρκετές. Θα πρέπει η ανάπτυξη αυτών των συστημάτων να πραγματοποιείται υποχρεωτικά μέσα από τα ethics by design (αρχές, εργαλεία και διαδικασίες), να εξασφαλιστεί η προστασία των πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων του υλικού που χρησιμοποιήθηκε για την εκπαίδευση αυτών των συστημάτων και να διασφαλιστεί ότι τα συστήματα αυτά δεν θα εξαπατούν, δεν θα χειραγωγούν και δεν θα βλάπτουν τους καταναλωτές και τους χρήστες.
Debate: Global Convergence on Generative AI
Date: THURSDAY, 13 JULY 2023
Speaker: Seán Kelly
Political group: PPE
Country: Greece
Language: EN

We are witnessing a fundamental shift in AI, driven by self-supervision. Generative AI is behind the wave of new online tools used by millions around the world –from answering queries on a range of topics to generating realistic photographs. Whether we like it or not, generative AI, like ChatGPT, are about to change not only how we work, but how the content we consume is produced. We do not know fully what implications of this wave of transformative artificial intelligence will be. The way that we make information and the basis of communication across society will be rewired. AI has broken into the mainstream and it is time to ask questions about what the business impacts of this technology are. I was pleased that the landmark AI proposal to regulate artificial intelligence based on its potential to cause harm passed in Parliament with an overwhelming majority. It is now time to ensure that leading tech companies’ artificial intelligence models comply with its requirements. There is an urgent need for enhanced collaboration between policy-makers and model providers to effectively address the gaps and challenges on a global level, and to find a common ground to ensure the appropriate implementation and effectiveness of the AI Act. AI in business needs to be held to a higher standard – built to be trusted, secured and adaptable.
Debate: Global Convergence on Generative AI
Date: THURSDAY, 13 JULY 2023
Speaker: Ibán García Del Blanco
Political group: S-D
Country: Italy
Language: ES

Señor presidente, la inteligencia artificial generativa supone una gran oportunidad: tiene una gran capacidad de impulsar la creatividad humana, de crear contenidos nuevos, pero sobre todo desde el sentido de la complementariedad, de no sustituir la creatividad humana, sino de impulsarla.  En ese sentido también comporta retos como, por ejemplo, cómo trabajamos con los contenidos que pueden resultar engañosos. Y en ese sentido también, la Ley de Inteligencia Artificial que ha aprobado este Parlamento y que va ahora a negociar con el Consejo plantea ya algunas soluciones importantes desde el punto de vista, por ejemplo, de la transparencia y de los contenidos que han sido utilizados en el entrenamiento de los algoritmos o desde el punto de vista también de obligaciones de transparencia para saber si estamos interactuando con inteligencia artificial o no.  En ese sentido, es importante que la Comisión se fije en estos parámetros, en estos estándares, que plantea el Parlamento Europeo para ampliarlos a nivel internacional. Es importante que haya unas leyes mínimas.  Pero hay algunos retos que tiene que acometer ya como, por ejemplo, la actualización de algunas leyes sectoriales. Desde el punto de vista, por ejemplo, de la propiedad intelectual, algunas se han quedado obsoletas y los artistas, los creadores cuyos contenidos han sido utilizados para entrenar estos modelos, necesitan que sea garantizada una compensación, porque no podemos permitirnos quedarnos sin artistas y creadores si son sustituidos por máquinas.
Debate: Global Convergence on Generative AI
Date: THURSDAY, 13 JULY 2023
Speaker: Dita Charanzová
Political group: Renew
Country: France
Language: EN

Mr President, the hype over Chat GPT during the last few months is extremely interesting and amazing, but what is more interesting is that this algorithm, based on its massive data, is creating false answers with false footnotes to match and doing so well that people are believing it is true, simply because the computer says so. The false answers are not the problem. It is that we don’t double—check them. They used to say, ‘don’t believe everything you read in books’. Then they said, ‘don’t believe everything you see on television’. I am here to add to that list: ‘don’t believe everything Chat GPT tells you’. But does this mean we should ban Chat GPT? No. If we don’t try things, we can never make them better. We can never fix the bugs in the system. If we don’t take a risk—based approach to technology, we will never advance because no product is without risk. Electricity is inherently dangerous. But what would life be like if we banned it before we learned how to tame it? The AI Act can help build trust in AI, encourage its adoption by users and support innovation. However, it is crucial that we base our actions on facts and not emotions.
Debate: Global Convergence on Generative AI
Date: THURSDAY, 13 JULY 2023
Speaker: Damian Boeselager
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Slovenia
Language: EN

Mr President, it is true that, when we started using ChatGPT, I think we all realised it is a bit like this book  It helped me actually write a code to, you know, write my own chatbot in Python, commit it to GitHub and then like upload it to Heroku to somehow make it work. I couldn’t do this without the help of, basically, ChatGPT writing that code for me. So what do we learn from this? I think we need a couple of principles out there to help us really work with it. The first one is that we should make sure that large models are safe to use and not biased. We should educate our kids, but also our politicians to be able to understand what this technology is. We need authenticity labels to understand what kind of content is AI created. We need to make sure that those who own the data benefit from it or have the right to safeguard it. We need to tax locally to stop concentration of wealth. We need to make sure that public data is used for public good. We need to make sure that we have a start—up friendly ecosystem to be able to have good AI models here, and we need smart enforcement in global coordination.
Debate: Global Convergence on Generative AI
Date: THURSDAY, 13 JULY 2023
Speaker: Sunčana Glavak
Political group: PPE
Country: Netherlands
Language: HR

Poštovani predsjedavajući, povjerenice, kolegice i kolege, tehnologija očigledno napreduje eksponencijalnom brzinom, što rezultira najavama revolucionarnih rješenja gotovo svaki tjedan.  Zanimljivo je da generativna umjetna inteligencija na razini chat GPT-a dosad ima više od 100 milijuna korisnika. Time se mijenjaju, naravno, informacije koje primamo, o tome ste govorili i vi, izbori koje donosimo i načini na koje funkcionira naše društvo.  Ima mnogo prednosti, s time se slažem, primjerice na polju zdravstva može nam ubrzati razvoj lijekova korištenjem naprednih algoritama za stvaranje novih molekula koje bi mogle biti potencijalni lijekovi.  Jednako tako, smatram, s druge strane, da je važno da se uspostavi pravni i onaj etički okvir kako bi se izbjegli potencijalno štetni učinci korištenja takvih tehnologija. U godinama koje su pred nama umjetna inteligencija igrat će još veću ulogu u načinu na koji rade vlade i javne institucije te u načinu na koji građani međusobno komuniciraju i sudjeluju u demokratskom procesu. Pitanje je vremena kada će i vlade početi koristiti generativnu umjetnu inteligenciju za predviđanje primjerice prometnih obrazaca i optimizaciju protoka prometa u stvarnom vremenu. To je samo jedan mali dio.  Na nama je da osiguramo da umjetna inteligencija bude za promicanje i zaštitu naših standarda. Prema procjenama, veličina tržišta umjetne inteligencije do 2030. godine bit će 110,8 milijardi američkih dolara.  Govorimo o golemoj industriji koja ima svoje interese. Može biti jednako tako i alat za društvenu korist, ali i ova kreativna revolucija mora biti implementirana na najbolji mogući način.  Stoga podsjećam da je Europa ta koja uvodi nove standarde koji potom postaju globalna mjerila, ali na kraju moga obraćanja želim apelirati, posebno na Komisiju, da ne smijemo zanemariti obrazovanje građana jer digitalno obrazovanje građana bit će preduvjet da ne upadnu u zamku koju nam ovog trenutka pruža umjetna inteligencija koju ne poznajemo dovoljno.
Debate: Global Convergence on Generative AI
Date: THURSDAY, 13 JULY 2023
Speaker: Tomislav Sokol
Political group: PPE
Country: Italy
Language: HR

Bojite li se takvog scenarija? Što mislite da mi možemo učiniti, da javna vlast može učiniti kako bi se spriječilo, odnosno kako bi se olakšala ta tranzicija na nove tehnologije i spriječilo da mnogi ljudi ostanu bez posla i da njihova egzistencija bude ugrožena?
Debate: Global Convergence on Generative AI
Date: THURSDAY, 13 JULY 2023
Speaker: Sunčana Glavak
Political group: PPE
Country: Netherlands
Language: HR

Umjetna inteligencija već je ušla u brojne sektora našeg gospodarstva, zdravstva. Nemojmo se zavaravati da ona već nije ovdje prisutna. Možda mi nismo na vrijeme zapravo počeli o njoj razgovarati.  Radna mjesta se mijenjaju kako se mijenja i naše okruženje. Stoga mi moramo biti ti koji ćemo obrazovati naše generacije za takozvana zvanja budućnosti. Vi dolazite iz tog sektora. Bili ste i državni tajnik u Vladi Republike Hrvatske upravo u Ministarstvu znanosti i obrazovanja i znate koliko je potrebno zapravo biti predvidljiv i mislim da u tom segmentu moramo posvetiti puno veću pozornost. Ne bojati se napretka tehnologije, već pronaći nova radna mjesta, mjesta budućnosti.
Debate: Global Convergence on Generative AI
Date: THURSDAY, 13 JULY 2023
Speaker: Alex Agius Saliba
Political group: S-D
Country: Malta
Language: MT

Sur President, iċ-ChatGPT malajr kiseb popolarità u laħaq illum aktar minn mitt miljun user fi ftit tax-xhur. Is-sistemi tal-Intelliġenza Artifiċjali ġenerattiva u l-konverżjoni taċ-ChatGPT urew riżultati impressjonanti u potenzjal għall-innovazzjoni u t-trasformazzjoni diġitali. Ħadd m’għandu dubju dwar dan. Iżda fil-proċess, ChatGPT qajjem ukoll mistoqsijiet importanti dwar id-drittijiet fundamentali taċ-ċittadini tagħna, il-protezzjoni tal-konsumaturi, l-għajxien tal-artisti. Is-sistema tal-Intelliġenza Artifiċjali ġenerattivi qed jitjiebu dejjem b’mod kostanti u jsiru aktar intelliġenti, u dejjem qed jiġġeneraw aktar kitba, vidjo, awdjo u kontenut li jidher reali iżda fil-fatt mhuwiex. L-industrija tal-Intelliġenza Artifiċjali ġenerattiva tista’ tkun perikoluża, u jekk din it-teknoloġija tmur ħażin, tista’ tħalli effetti devastanti fuq ħafna setturi. Allura l-hype madwar l-Intelliġenza Artifiċjali ġenerattiva taċ-ChatGPT, m’għandux jaljenana mill-perikli reali. L-Unjoni Ewropea kienet forza ewlenija wara l-Att dwar l-Intelliġenza Artifiċjali, u bil-vot tagħna bgħatna messaġġ globali lill-gvernijiet u lill-iżviluppaturi tal-Intelliġenza Artifiċjali li xi użu dwar din l-Intelliġenza huma perikolużi u jeħtieġ li jiġu rregolati. U dan huwa l-każ ukoll għal ChatGPT u sistemi ġenerattivi simili.
Debate: Global Convergence on Generative AI
Date: THURSDAY, 13 JULY 2023
Speaker: Karen Melchior
Political group: Renew
Country: Estonia
Language: EN

Mr President, I thank the Commissioner for being here. I think we could have had more Commissioners, as regulating AI encompasses many areas and lots of the portfolios of your colleagues. Last year, the use of generative AI spread like wildfire. When we started the work on the AI Act, we couldn’t have imagined such an exponential rise in the use of generative AI. By the commendable efforts of my colleagues negotiating the AI Act, we managed to go a long way to address these issues.  We also managed to stop the fearmongering, but we still have gaps that remain. In particular on copyright, where existing rules and the Copyright in the Single Market Directive were not built with AI in mind. But also on other harms, such as disinformation and non-consensual generated nude images. It is vital that we keep in mind that the AI Act will only come into force at the earliest in 2026, and then even when it’s in force most of the challenges, including the ones I mentioned, are cross-border issues. Regulating them here does not shelter us from the impact of their use abroad. The only way to achieve this is an international agreement on AI, whether it will be in the OECD, G7 or G20. The EU is well placed to pioneer such an agreement. However, we do face an uphill battle. Third countries, both rivals and allies, have very different opinions on what to do and what to regulate. To succeed, the EU needs to work as one on the international stage. And that’s why I was kind of concerned when two seemingly competing proposals from Vestager and Breton were proposed: the AI Pact and the AI Code of Conduct, both targeting the G7, seek to achieve many of the same goals. But why are they not being negotiated together? We have one year together, this Parliament and the Commission, to achieve this, to shape AI globally for the better. So let’s work on this together.
Debate: Global Convergence on Generative AI
Date: THURSDAY, 13 JULY 2023
Speaker: Deirdre Clune
Political group: PPE
Country: France
Language: EN

Mr President, Commissioner, it is clear that generative AI is coming at a speed like no other technology has: 100 million users in the first two months. Everybody with a smartphone or a phone can have access to ChatGPT. It has the potential to influence political discourse, shape public opinion and affect societal dynamics.  While it can be a force for good through helpful automation, it also presents certain risks and can contribute to the spread of disinformation that could put our elections at risk, can pose new questions about our education systems, which will need to adapt, and prompt serious questions about employment and workforce adaptation. Globally, generative AI will have an impact on people’s lives, whether they choose to use it or not, and this requires a global approach, in turn.  This Parliament recently adopted its position on the AI Act, seeking to ensure transparency, protect fundamental rights and support innovation at the same time. ChatGPT was in its infancy when the Act was first proposed and not really in the public consciousness. This has changed in the past months and now everybody is using it. In Parliament, here we were the first to try and truly tackle this fast moving and evolving technology with a concrete legislative proposal on how to address powerful foundation models to build trust, provide transparency and oversight on these powerful systems.  The AI Act will likely enter into force at a later date, whereas a global convergence on how to approach generative AI in a safe, responsible manner can take place already, and it can use Parliament’s approach as a blueprint on how to do so. This means transparency, risks, audits and other technical details for companies developing this technology.  So there’s also procedures of tension between innovation and regulation when it comes to the EU and some of our partners, especially when it comes to new technologies, but diverging approaches between like-minded partners can create barriers to innovation. Therefore, I welcome the approach at international level under the Trade and Technology Council to develop guardrails, code of conduct, framework, whatever, but we need common standards that we can all work to.
Debate: Global Convergence on Generative AI
Date: THURSDAY, 13 JULY 2023
Speaker: Ivars Ijabs
Political group: Renew
Country: France
Language: EN

Mr President, dear European Commission, I find it deeply symbolic that the discussion process about the generative AI initiated by G7 leaders a few weeks ago is named a Hiroshima process. This name invokes analogies with nuclear energy, which can be both immensely destructive and also a highly constructive force. Generative AI, with its immense power, necessitates efficient governance to ensure it empowers our society rather than causes harm. In the meantime, it is crucial that Europe does not fall far behind the US and China in deployment of those reactors of AI energy. This will entail also the public investment in the provision of high-quality data for researchers to train large language models. It is predicted that high quality text for training those models will run out in a few years’ time.  This, and now I come to my main point, this could present a unique challenge for smaller languages. The quality data in smaller languages must receive a special attention from the European Union. This goes very much hand-in-hand with the need to adjust our copyright laws to provide appropriate compensation for content creators.