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Google says more 'nuanced' approach to defining high-risk AI needed from EU Commission

By Matthew Newman
  • 28 May 2020 12:34
  • 28 May 2020 12:39
Google has called for a more "nuanced” definition of “high-risk” applications of artificial intelligence from the European Commission, in a submission today on the EU’s future regulation of the technology.
The commission has said that AI technology is covered by a variety of EU rules, but given its rapid evolution,

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Matthew Newman

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Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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