Activities of Dace MELBĀRDE related to 2020/2012(INL)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION with recommendations to the Commission on framework of ethical aspects of artificial intelligence, robotics and related technologies
Amendments (8)
Amendment 3 #
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1. Recalls that the creation and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the areas of culture, education and information policyal and creative sectors (CCS), education as well as media and online platforms, similar to other sectors, not only has enormous potential, but has also raisesd and will continue to raise a wide range of ethical issues that need to be addressed; stresses, however, that governance of technology must be implemented in a way that does not disrupt innovation or curtail freedom of expression;
Amendment 7 #
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2. Stresses the need to develop clear, comprehensive and tailored criteria for the use of AI in education, media and creative sect, CCS and online platforms, by developing benchmarks for ethically responsible and accepted uses of AI technologies in these areas; underlines that these criteria must be constantly adjusted to reflect the progress in AI technologies; so as to also responsibly help harness the full potential of AI; highlights in particular the need to address personal user data collection and privacy concerns in education, as well as liability issues in cases where automated learning processes lead to undesirable outcomes;
Amendment 17 #
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3. Notices that AI personalised learning systems are increasingly being deployed in schools and universitiesRecognises the enormous potential that AI and robotics can contribute towards education, in particular in easing teachers' workload and addressing the increasing shortage of educational staff; notices, however, that AI-based applications for teaching and learning are, albeit slowly, being deployed at various levels of education, which is not only changing the role of teachers in the learning process to one more of facilitation, but the processes themselves; stresses that this gradual shift should be reflected in curricula and in methods used to deliver instructions; considers that teachers’ skills need to be upgraded beyond the basic ICT competencies in order to not only harness the full potential of AI, but to also understand its limitations and to help identify the potential ethical concerns in education;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
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3 a. Stresses that where machine learning is used in the selection of potential students, adequate safeguards must be implemented, including informing applicants of these procedures and their rights in this regard; notes that the relevant algorithms need to be trained on broad data sets in order to prevent the algorithms from unfairly discriminating against certain groups; is of the view that the relevant decisions taken with the help of automated processes need to be explainable, including, if necessary, to the rejected students;
Amendment 35 #
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4. Acknowledges the greatowing potential of AI in the areas of information and media, media and online platforms, including as a powerful tool to fight disinformation; is concerned, however, about its dual use in the sector, especially the potential to manipulate public opinion online and the rise of AI-enabled computational propaganda and false information; underlines that, if notAI is not properly understood and regulated, it might have alsoalso have ethically adverse effects by spreading fake news,such as creating information bubbles and exploiting biases incorporated into AI algorithms;
Amendment 44 #
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5. Emphasises the need to raise awareness and understanding in the general public about the role and impact of AI through formal and non-formal education, including about the use of algorithms and their impact, inter alia, on jobs and privacy; considers that education should empower citizens to develop new forms of critical thinking and digital literacy, including ‘algorithm awareness’ and the ability to reflect on the impact of AI on information, knowledge, and decision-making;
Amendment 57 #
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6. Emphasises the importance for transparency and accountability of algorithms used by media streaming companies, in order to ensureof understanding algorithms used by video and music streaming services as well as spoken audio services and online e-book e-commerce stores, in order to ensure that the users also benefit from access to culturally and linguistically diverse content based on their interests; stresses that such algorithms should be designed in such a way that they do not privilege specific works by limiting their ‘personalised’ suggestions to solely the most popular works;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
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7. Notes that sport has always embraced technological innovation; considers, nevertheless, that the use of AI technologies is increasingly raising questions of fair competition in sport; stresses that this area needs a regulatory framework. whereby those teams with the most financial resources can acquire the best technology, thus potentially giving them an unfair advantage; stresses, in this regard, the need to make the relevant technology widely accessible; is of the view that further monitoring is needed to understand whether a regulatory framework in this area may be necessary in the future;