Source: imagenradio

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the world of technology and is changing the way people interact with electronic devices. This innovation undoubtedly offers a great opportunity to improve user experience and productivity, as well as opening up new business opportunities.

However, the challenges related to the appropriate use of AI have to be addressed before the technology is widely adopted, therefore, it becomes fundamental to the proper use of design and compliance regulations to ensure safety, privacy, ethical responsibility and social justice in everything related to AI.

In this sense, the European Union (EU) is currently finalizing a new regulation aimed at regulating some aspects of the use of AI, in order to ensure that users receive benefits without the implications of risks or abuses with the use of it. The new regulation, known as the ‘AI Act’, contemplates including terms for companies that develop systems based on this type of intelligence -such as chatbots-, to disclose any material protected by copyright.

It also aims to classify AI tools according to the perceived level of risk, from minimal to limited, to high and unacceptable, thus providing users with information on the type and degree of threats they face when using this technology. In addition, the EU institutions are also proposing penalties for non-compliance for all developers and companies that violate the legal requirements.

The new legal framework will not neglect issues such as privacy, data protection, transparency, explainability of results, responsibilities and training, with the aim of ensuring that AI-based systems are reliable, ethical, have security controls, do not discriminate users or professionals, and thus reduce latent concerns about the risk that decisions made by automated AI-based systems may be harmful to society or to specific individuals, which may result in legal liabilities.

In principle, all companies that use or participate in the design, manufacture and/or commercialization of the AI models discussed so far or of systems based on them are particularly concerned by the AI Act and it would be advisable to conduct an analysis of how the application of this regulation could impact them.

In the case of Mexico, the regulation on this matter is limited to some provisions related to the protection of personal data or copyright and image usafe rights, depending on the rights involved; however, it does not directly address the ethical or governance issues surrounding the development and use of AI, although it is expected that the necessary regulations will soon be established to better control its use.