Last week, the Legal Affairs committee in the European Parliament adopted my opinion on the #AIAct with strong support. 17 votes in favor, one against.

Focusing on 10 key areas within the competence of the JURI committee, we send a strong signal to the lead committees, LIBE and IMCO while also presenting new ideas for the political debate on #AI.

On the scope (Art. 2), we introduce three new exemptions.
– On research, testing, development to promote innovation in AI,
– On Business to Business (B2B) to avoid regulating non-risky industrial applications,
– On open-source until its commercialization to support small market players.

We also adjusted the responsibilities of providers (Art. 16) as well as users (Art. 29) as regards their supply chain. In addition, we specified under what circumstances those responsibilities might shift to another actor (Art. 23a) and we tried to integrate general purpose AI into the AI Act.

The JURI committee also transformed the AI Board into a powerful EU body with own legal personality and strong involvement of stakeholders which would help to better coordinate among Member States and to keep AI Act up to date.

As usual, I have to thank Kai Zenner for his tireless work and the great result!