German European People’s Party MEP Axel Voss, the senior lawmaker in charge of guiding new AI liability regulations in the European Parliament, has called a European Commission proposal to rescind it a “strategic mistake.”
On Wednesday, the Commission will announce its 2025 work program in Strasbourg, outlining the schedule for legislative measures in the upcoming year as well as identifying which ideas will be dropped. The EU executive claims that “no foreseeable agreement” is envisaged on the proposal in the upcoming year, despite the fact that an AI Liability Directive was suggested in 2022 concurrently with the Bloc’s AI Act.
To update current regulations with new clauses addressing harms brought on by AI systems and to guarantee consistency of protection, the Commission proposed the AI Liability Directive in 2022. The document has been added to the withdrawal list. The article states that the Commission will determine whether to table a different proposal or adopt a different strategy.
Voss told Euronews that the rules’ repeal would result in “legal uncertainty, corporate power imbalances, and a Wild West approach to AI liability that benefits only Big Tech.” Voss started a consultation this month to get industry feedback on the rules’ scope to prepare the work in Parliament. A fragmented patchwork of 27 different national legal systems will dictate AI liability, suffocating European AI startups and SMEs,” he continued.
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