Ref. Ares(2020)7909005 - 23/12/2020
Meeting with
Huawei
Brussels, 7 February 2020
Aiming to operationalise these requirements, the Ethics Guidelines present an
assessment list that offers guidance on each requirement's practical implementation.
Organisations across the EU have been able to test the assessment list and provide
feedback for its improvement during a piloting process that is now completed.
The feedback received is currently being further processed. The High-Level Expert Group
will then analyse the feedback and use it to revise the Assessment List to make it more
useful and fit for purpose. This work will be carried out in the first half of 2020, and will be
presented at the AI Alliance Forum in June 2020.
For the policy and investment recommendations, the High-Level Expert Group looked at
the main goals or impacts that they would like to achieve for AI, and at the main enablers
that can make such impact happen (e.g. funding, skills, data and infrastructure as well as
regulation). The recommendations were presented to the Commission on 26 June 2019.
The Commission also tasked another high-level expert group of stakeholders, including
academics, industry and civil society organisations, with an analysis of the impact of
digitisation on EU labour markets. In April 2019, the group issued policy recommendations.
In May 2019, a study was published (‘The future of work? Work of the future!’ by Michel
Servoz, Senior Adviser on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and the Future of Labour).
Following the publication on the Communication ‘Artificial Intelligence for Europe’, the
Commission also launched a reflection process on whether further developments are
needed in the EU legal framework.
Regarding safety and liability, the Commission established an expert group on Liability
and New Technologies, in two distinct formations. As a result of the expert work, the
Commission will publish interpretative guidance on the Product Liability Directive and a
Report on the broader implications for, potential gaps in and orientations for the liability
and safety frameworks for Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and robotics.
Regarding further activities, the Commission had a EUR 50 million call for proposals for
networking AI excellence centres in Europe, with the deadline for submissions on 13
November 2019. The proposals will be evaluated in early 2020 by independent experts,
and the selection will be made on that basis.
Since 1 January 2019, the Commission has been funding a EUR 20 million project to build
a so-called AI-on-demand platform. The goal is to mobilise the European AI ecosystem to
make available and provide access to AI resources for all EU users, and to build services
on top of them. On 19 November 2019, the Commission published a new call for
proposals to develop this Artificial-Intelligence-on-demand platform further.
The EU is also closely cooperating at the international level with the OECD, G7, G20, etc.
and there are bilateral contacts, for example with Canada and Japan. It will important to
towards a consensus on ethical values at global level that is as broad as possible.
Contact – briefing contribution:
(DG CNECT A1), tel.:
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