Calling for a “pause” in artificial intelligence research, as a global petition did this week, is a “bad response” to legitimate fears, Digital Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said on Friday.
He was questioned about a petition posted Wednesday on futureoflife.org, whereby the signatories, including businessman Elon Musk and historian Yuval Noah Harari, demand a moratorium on this investigation until safeguards are in place, including new dedicated regulatory authorities. .
Transparency obligations
According to him, “it is better to act as we, as Europeans, have done, creating a framework for artificial intelligence. With a regulation that is currently being discussed at the European level, which is called the Regulation on artificial intelligence, in which to say: these These are the activities for which artificial intelligence is prohibited. Example: the general surveillance of populations.”
For other activities, such as health or transport, he recalled that the EU was discussing so that they are “subject to obligations of transparency and audits”. And for others, “the use of artificial intelligence is free,” Barrot stressed.
The Delegate Minister was questioned about the advisability of globally banning the TikTok application in France, already banned from employees’ work phones, due to the risks to the protection of personal data.
Source: BFM TV
