Global Digital Foundation

We propose the addition of an article mandating the requirement contained in Whereas clause 60 (repeated below) for third parties to cooperate with providers and users. This would provide legal certainty for all actors in the value chain. It would ease the compliance burden for providers and AI value chain actors. It would increase public trust in AI.

Policy analysts and policymakers are responding to AI as both a threat to human rights and as a potential savour of humanity from discrimination. This response rests on two questionable ideas. The first is that AI’s supposed human-like intelligence could give it a mind or a ‘will’.

The European Commission has identified a number of undesirable practices which it says threaten Europe’s successful transition to the Digital Single Market. While the Commission’s study and stakeholder consultation has found some questionable practices, fixing them will not require the more intrusive of the economic regulations which its “Reception Impact Assessment” is contemplating.

The European Commission is considering regulatory options that could be applied to the relationship between internet platforms and their businesses users. Based on consultation with stakeholders and a study commissioned from ZEW-Gutachten und Forschungsberichte, it has identified a number of undesirable practices which it says threaten Europe’s successful transition to the Digital Single Market.