{"id":85067,"date":"2023-09-27T15:39:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T12:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=85067"},"modified":"2025-09-12T21:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:06:39","slug":"eu-commission-warns-of-ai-risks-to-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/eu-commission-warns-of-ai-risks-to-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Commission warns of AI risks to democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tools of generative artificial intelligence pose risks to free and fair elections in a democratic society, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/speech_23_4645\\\">stated<\/a> European Commission Commissioner Vera Jourova.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-deepfake\">deepfakes<\/a> misinformation poses a potential threat to the upcoming vote for the new European Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Jourov\u00e1 welcomed the safeguards informing users about the &#8216;synthetic origin of content&#8217;, but urged their further expansion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cThese efforts must be continued and intensified, given the high potential of realistic AI products to create and spread disinformation. The risks are especially high in the context of elections. Therefore I urge platforms to remain vigilant and to provide effective safety guarantees,\u201d she warned.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The EU commissioner noted that she had met with OpenAI&#8217;s leadership and discussed these issues with them.<\/p>\n<p>In April, a group of European lawmakers announced plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/meps-to-draft-additional-ai-oversight-measures\">develop a draft framework of rules<\/a> to regulate the development of AI systems. Later, the European Parliament <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/european-parliament-backs-amendments-to-ai-bill\">introduced<\/a> amendments to the document that ban a broad range of uses of the technology.<\/p>\n<p>These include restrictions on facial-recognition programs in public places and predictive policing algorithms. The bill also imposes transparency requirements on creators of generative models. They would be obliged to label content as AI-generated and to disclose information about the materials used for training.<\/p>\n<p>In June, UN representatives said that AI-generated deepfakes undermine information integrity and fuel hatred in society.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at OpenAI warned of the growing threat of using language models to spread disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>American scientists, for their part, urged countering deepfakes created by &#8216;hostile states&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tools of generative AI pose risks to free and fair elections in a democratic society, said EU Commissioner Vera Jourova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,36],"class_list":["post-85067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-regulation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85069,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85067\/revisions\/85069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}