19 Amendments of Javier NART related to 2020/2012(INL)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the endorsement, by the 2019 Meeting of High Contracting Parties to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), of 11 Guiding Principles for the development and use of autonomous weapons systems;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that a UnionRecommends that a EU Member States' framework regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled systems in defence must respect all applicable legal regimes, in particular the international humanitarian law and the international human rights law, and be in compliance with Union law, principles and values; calls on the Union to assess the inherent AI-related risks with regard to the application of Union law, and foresee necessary adjustment and enforcement where needed;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas artificial intelligence, robotics and related technologies can make a huge contribution to reaching our common goal of improving the lives of citizens and fostering prosperity within the EU;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
A. whereas, in areas such as health, agriculture, energy, transport, climate and various industrial processes artificial intelligence, robotics and related technologies can contribute to the development of better strategies and innovations;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas the development of artificial intelligence, robotics and related technologies is also a condition to reach the sustainability goals of the European Green Deal in many different sectors; whereas digital technologies can boost the impact of policies in delivering environmental protection;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas such a framework should include legislative actions, where needed, including mandatory measures to prevent practices that would undoubtedly undermine fundamental rights and freedoms as defined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas a common European framework forshould ensure the development, the deployment and the use of artificial intelligence, robotics and related technologies within the Union shoultrustworthy, ethical and technically robust artificial intelligence, based on Union’s laws and values and guided boy the protect citizens from their potential risks and promote the trustworthiness of such technologies in the worldinciples of transparency and explainability, fairness, accountability and responsibility;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that current and future defence-related activities within the Union framework will draw on AI, on robotics and autonomy, and on related technologies and that the Union must assume leading role in research and development of AI systems in defence field; believes that the use of AI-enabled applications in defence offer number of direct benefits such as higher quality collected data, greater situational awareness, increased speed for decision-making, reduced risk of collateral damage thanks to better cabling, protection of forces on the ground, as well as greater reliability of military equipment; recalls that AI systems are also becoming key elements in countering emerging security threats;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that AI technologies are, in essence, dual use; highlights that AI in defence-related activities is a transverse disruptive technology whose development may provide opportunities for the competitiveness and the strategic autonomy of the EU;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas that framework should encompass all situations requiring due consideration of the Union’s principles and values, namelymake sure that the development, the deployment and the use of the relevant technologies and their components are fully compliant with the Union’s principles and values;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas action at Union level is justified by the need for a homogenous application of common ethical principles when developing, deploying and using artificial intelligence, robotics and related technologies; whereas clear rules are needed where major risks are at stake;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines that the Union, in connection with the work carried out by the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons’ Governmental Expert Group, must be at the forefront of mastering those technologies by establishing well defined processes for their use, for understanding the related ethical aspects and for fostering an effective international regulatory framework that contains the inherent risks of these technologies and prevents use for malicious purposes; those include in particular unintended harm to persons, be it material or immaterial, such as breach of fundamental rights;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls that most of current military powers worldwide have already engaged in significant R&D efforts related to the military dimension of AI; considers that the EU must see to it that it does not lag behind in this regard; Stresses that for any defence application of AI enabled systems, the Union should set technical and organisational standards to ensure their resilience against cyber-attacks and digital influence, as well as their compliance with the highest possible trustworthiness standards as regards the collection and exploitation of operational data;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 b (new)
Paragraph -1 b (new)
-1b. Considers that artificial intelligence, robotics and related technologies should be considered« high risk technologies » when they are used in sectors, where given the characteristics of the activities typically undertaken, and are used in such a manner that significant risks can be expected to occur from the viewpoint of safety and fundamental rights and freedoms;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 c (new)
Paragraph -1 c (new)
-1c. Asks the Commission to establish an exhaustive list of the technologies fulfilling these criteria in the form of annex to the Regulation on ethical principles for the development, deployment and use of artificial intelligence, robotics and related technologies; considers that the Commission should review the exhaustive list, if necessary, every six months by means of a delegated act to add new high- risk technologies or delete existing ones if they do not fulfil the criteria anymore; recalls that any changes to the annex should be thoroughly assessed and justified;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stressed that all AI-systems in defence must have a concrete and well- defined domain of usemission framework and must be endowed with the ability to detect and disengage or diseactivate deployed systems should they move from their domain of usebeyond the mission framework defined and assigned by the human command or engage in any escalatory or unintended action;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines that the entire responsibility for the decision to design, develop, deploy and use AI-systems must rest on human operators and the human- in-the-loop principle must also be applied to the command and control of AI-enabled systems control should remain effective for the command and control, following a human- on-the-loop principle at the military leadership level; stresses that AI-enabled systems must allow the military leadership to assume its full responsibility and exercise the necessary level of judgment for taking lethal or large-scale destructive action be means of such systems;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines that transparency and explainability isare essential to ensuring thate citizens’ trust in these technologies, even if the degree of explainability is relative to the complexity of the technologies, and that it should be complemented by auditability and traceability; considers that the respect of these principles is a precondition to guarantee accountability;
Amendment 134 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the European Commission and on the VP/HR to present, also as part of an overall approach, a sectoral AI strategy for defence-related activities within the Union framework, that should propose a consistent regulatory approach spanning from the inception of AI-enabled systems to their military uses; calls on the Council, the European Commission and on the VP/HR to enter in a structured dialogue with the European Parliament to that end.