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| ChatGPT is classified by the European Union as a high risk application |
Referring to the new threat posed by the ChatGPT smart chat application, Thierry Breton, Head of European Industry, said in a statement published by Reuters today that the European Union is studying the potential risks that ChatGPT could pose. It was introduced as part of a European bill regulating the operation of intelligence programmes.
The aforementioned project, known as the Artificial Intelligence Law, is the first project in the world to establish laws regulating artificial intelligence technology. The European Union launched the project to create a legal framework for working on artificial intelligence in 2021 with the aim of creating laws that could form laws that prevent companies from using artificial intelligence in certain fields.
According to Bell's website, AI applications fall into three categories:
- Unacceptable: These are apps used to spy on and track people, and the proposed law seeks to ban them entirely.
- High risk: eg b. Applications to screen and sort resumes that must meet certain legal requirements.
- Beyond: All applications that do not fall into the first two categories as they are allowed to run unregulated
Thierry Breton's statement is seen as an indication of ChatGPT's relevance to the classification of high-risk applications, especially since the European Council issued a statement last December saying that the European Union recommended that public AI applications be moved to classified applications to be exposed to high risk.
This divides AI applications into two categories:
- One-off applications: such as image classification, voice recognition, and financial fraud detection applications
- General Purpose Apps: These apps can perform different tasks
ChatGPT is a multi-purpose application because it is capable of performing a wide variety of tasks including generating text, solving math problems, answering general questions, writing code, and more. However, some experts suspect that it is a general application, seeing it as a "language model" that still lacks many of the other capabilities that would make it a general AI.
But regardless of its classification, ChatGPT has attracted attention because it is used for purposes such as cheating or writing fake messages, and hackers have allegedly used it to help them write malware.
According to Britton, the ChatGPT AI underscores the urgency to pass the legislation under discussion. He added, in a statement to Reuters, that these applications provide great opportunities for companies and citizens, but they also pose many risks, and for this reason we need legislation to ensure that these applications are trustworthy and provide high-quality data, he said.
Many companies developing AI applications worry that their applications will be considered high-risk, which may mean that companies must meet strict regulatory requirements, increasing costs and slowing development.
If the EU moves to classify ChatGPT and similar software as (high-risk) software, this would mean that EU law would require companies to change and possibly reduce the functionality of their software in order to comply with the requirements of the new law.