In a letter sent at the end of last week to European Commission Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy Henna Virkkunen, seven MEPs expressed their alarm at the third and final version of the General Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice.
The MEPs, who are all rapporteurs or shadow rapporteurs for the AI Act, point to the “suddenly entirely voluntary” nature of “assessing and mitigating various risks to fundamental rights and democracy” (see EUROPE 13597/21).
“We, the co-legislators who negotiated the AI Act, stress: this was never the intention of the trilogue agreement. [...] It is dangerous, undemocratic and creates legal uncertainty to fully reinterpret and narrow down a legal text that co-legislators agreed on”, they denounce.
They urge the vice president to address these concerns and, if necessary, to reject the Code of Practice if it is not aligned with the AI Act’s ambitions.
See the letter: https://aeur.eu/f/g4f (Original version in French by Isalia Stieffatre)