EU publishes draft AI-transparency guidelines
The European Commission is inviting feedback on draft guidelines on transparency obligations for AI providers.
From 2 August, people in the EU will have to be informed when they are interacting with AI systems or exposed to certain AI-generated or manipulated content.
The commission published the draft guidelines on the obligations under the AI Act on Friday (8 May).
Machine-readable marks
Under the act, AI providers will have to inform people when they are interacting with an AI system and add machine-readable marks to enable the detection of AI-generated or manipulated content.
Deployers will also have to inform people when they are exposed to deepfakes, AI-generated publications on matters of public interest, and emotion-recognition or biometric-categorisation systems.
The commission says that its draft guidelines take feedback from previous consultations into account and aim to clarify the scope of the obligations.
Code of practice
A voluntary code of practice drafted by independent experts, expected in June, will complement the guidelines.
Interested parties – including providers and developers of AI systems, businesses and public authorities, academia, research institutions, and citizens – are being invited to share their views on the guidelines by 3 June.
Last week, the EU Council and European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on a European Commission proposal, known as the Digital Omnibus on AI, aimed at streamlining some of the rules on the technology in the AI Act.