Europe would do well to take digitization and artificial intelligence seriously. Negative examples from other countries also show that personal rights must be preserved.
Artificial intelligence already permeates many areas in everyday life.
The European Union finally seems to have understood that artificial intelligence will be the next big thing in digitization. Or actually already is. In any case, the EU Commission
announced on Wednesday that Europe should become one of the world's leading locations for trustworthy applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI).This digital technology is already having an enormous impact on our everyday lives. There is hardly a road user who can still get by without a navigation system. There is hardly a family that does not use voice assistants like Alexa.
Chinese authorities analyze social behavior.
In the US, a company made headlines the other day because it had developed a facial recognition program that could analyze millions of faces in a matter of seconds, and the police were happy to help. Applications are known from China with which the authorities observe and evaluate the social behavior of their citizens in order to use the findings when allocating apartments.
The examples also show that you can't think big enough when it comes to artificial intelligence: self-driving cars, medical diagnoses, climate change - these are just three of the many striking Z.
The only problem is that this technology works well when the computers are fed with a lot of data. But where do you get the data from without violating personal rights? Image recognition programs can only identify cancer better than radiologists if they have evaluated thousands of photos. It is also clear that citizens in Europe only make these X-ray images available with a clear conscience if the data is used anonymously. the EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is absolutely right when she says that AI must always respect people's rights.
Assessing the impact of Artificial Intelligence is still in its infancy.
At the same time, the Commission considers the control of particularly risky AI applications to be necessary. The problems begin already. An example: Very, very many road users use navigation systems. It is also helpful that the algorithms recommend a diversion if there is a traffic jam on the selected route.
But what to do if the traffic jam occurs every day due to construction work and the alternative route leads through a residential area, where people are suffering from exhaust fumes and property prices are falling? Definitely too much power for tech in deciding which redirect to really recommend. And navigation systems would not initially be called risky AI applications.
The example also shows that we are still at the very beginning when it comes to assessing the effects of AI. Where no problems are expected so far, there will certainly be some. And where there is skepticism today, perhaps a simple solution will be found. With all questions, however, there can be no discussion about the fact that people always have to make the final decision on the basis of fundamental rights. And that data security is a great asset.
Exemplary regulation of Europeans.
In the USA, no one really seems to care about such considerations, in China what the algorithms want is done anyway. With regard to the General Data Protection Regulation, the European authorities and politicians observed the actions of the tech companies for a long time before they acted.
The result is a regulation that is even described as exemplary by tech experts such as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. It has also not harmed Europe as a business location, as the billions of dollars that venture capitalists invest in European start-ups show.
When it comes to dealing with the challenges posed by artificial intelligence, Apple could be a role model: company founder Steve Jobs never intended to be the fastest. He always wanted to be the best. With this claim, the company changed the world.
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