38 Amendments of Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ related to 2020/2017(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1
Citation 1
— having regard to Articles 165, 166 and 167 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are being developed at a fast pace, and are increasingly being used in almost all areas of our lives, including education, culture and the audiovisual sector;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the availability of high- quality and, meaningful, trustworthy and compatible data is essential for the development of AI;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the use of AI raises many concerns regarding the ethics and transparency of data collection, use and dissemination; whereas the benefits and risks of AI in these sectors must be carefully assessed and its effects on all aspects of society thoroughly and continuously analysed;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas it is essential to ensure that people in the Union acquire the necessary skills to prepare themselves for the increasing presence of AI in all aspects of human activity; whereas only when digital skills will be widespread across all parts of the European society, we can achieve a just digital transformation, beneficial for everybody;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas AI can be used to improve learning and teaching methods, notably by helping education systems to use data to improve educational equity and quality, whilst promoting personalisation and better access to education; whereas it is necessary to take into account that in order to make the digitisation and use of AI beneficial to the whole society, it requires equal and just access to digital technologies and high speed connectivity; whereas it is of the highest importance to ensure the digital education accessible for the European society as a whole, including for people with disadvantaged backgrounds and for people with disabilities;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the use of AI for media content, notably personalised content recommendations, raises issues regarding cultural and linguistic diversity as well as danger of production of discriminatory outputs based on biased entry data;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas AI- can be used to generated fake content, such as ‘deepfakes’, is that are growing exponentially and constitutes an imminent threat to democracy, while it can also be used as an invaluable tool for identification and immediate fight against such malicious activity, for example through real-time fact checking or labelling of such content;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
K a. whereas the Union digital labour market is missing almost half a million experts in big data sciences and data analysis, who represent the core of development and usage of quality and trustworthy AI;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reiterates the importance of developing quality, compatible and inclusive data systems which respect and defend the values of the Union (in particular gender equality, multilingualism and the conditions necessary for intercultural dialogue) for use in deep learning as the use of low- quality, outdated, incomplete or incorrect data may lead to poor predictions and in turn discrimination and bias; highlights that it is essential to develop capabilities at both national and Union level to improve data collection and, safety, systematisation and transferability;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Stresses the strategic importance of AI and related technologies, therefore, the European approach must be precisely defined and uniform, while ensuring it stays human-centred, resulting in AI being a tool for people and common good;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls the importance of strengthening digital skills at, competences and media literacy at national and Union level as a prerequisite for the use of AI in education; calls on the Commission, in that regard, to make AI-related skills one of the main priorities of its next Digital Education Action Plan;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Highlights, that the use of AI in education systems brings a wide range of possibilities, opportunities and tools for making it more innovative, inclusive, efficient and increasingly effective by introducing new ways of quick and personalised student-centric high quality learning; stresses however that, as it will impact education and social inclusion, the availability of such tools to all social groups by establishing equal access to education and learning leaving no one behind, especially persons with disabilities must be ensured;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Stresses the importance of respecting fundamental and human rights, freedoms and values, including privacy and the protection of everyone’s personal data while using technology and AI related tools in education, by providing legally binding ethical conditions, safety and transparency with precisely defined, uniformed and clarified Union-wide regulation aligned with GDPR-compliant rules for data sharing, especially for children and minors, who are most vulnerable and are strictly protected;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the learning benefits of using AI in education will depend not only on AI itself, but on how teachers use AI to meet the needs of bothpupils, students and teachers; points out, therefore, the need for AI programmers to involve teachers increating a nexus environment to form connections and cooperation between AI programmers, developers, companies, schools, teachers and other public and private stakeholders for designing AI- sustainable solutions that are suitable for real-life educational environments;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Encourages the national governments together with educational institutions to rethink, rework and adapt their educational curricula according to the needs of 21st century allowing the usage of AI in education to create educational programmes with a stronger emphasis on STEAM subjects which will result in preparing learners for the increasing importance of AI and facilitate the acquisition of cognitive skills;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights, moreover, the need to train teachers so they canreform teaching programmes for new generations of teachers, thus enhancing their ability of complying the pedagogical skills with the knowledge of using technologies while also training the current teachers and educators allowing them to adapt to the realities of AI- powered education and acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to use AI in a qualitative, sure, pedagogical and meaningful way; further highlights the importance of elaborating and updating AI solutions handbooks and guidelines for teachers; further highlights that use of AI in education of children and youth is inevitable and has to go hand in hand with education for media literacy;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the importance of increasing the number of training highly skilled professionals in the field of AI and of upskilling the current and future workforce to enable it to cope with the realities of an AI-driven labour market; thus encourages the Member States to upgrade their educational offers with AI- related skills and to put in place specific curricula for AI developers;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Highlights, that future labour environment will be heavily dependent on digital technologies and AI throughout all sectors, which will lead to transformation of the European labour market; stresses that it is necessary to ensure that no-one is left behind without being able to adapt to the changes, mainly through requalification, lifelong learning, adaptation of digital technologies to suit the needs of people with disabilities;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Regrets the underrepresentation of women in jobs connected to AI, such as data analysis, IT, mathematics and computing technologies, because only fair representation of all parts of society in relevant field will be able to produce AI beneficial to all;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that AI can play a significant role in preserving, promoting and managing cultural heritage, notably by monitoring and analysing changes to cultural heritage sites caused by threats such as climate change, natural disasters and armed conflicts; Calls on the Commission to investigate possible use of AI for digitisation of cultural heritage that would be beneficial for their preservation and risk prediction;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that AI provides new opportunities for cultural institutions, such as museums, to produce innovative tools for cataloguing artefacts as well as documenting and accessing cultural heritage sites, notably through 3D modelling and augmented virtual reality; stresses that AI will also allow museums and art galleries to be able to implement interactive and personalised services for visitors by providing them a list of suggested items based on their expressed interest in person as well as online;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Stresses that using AI will provide new innovative approaches, tools and methodologies allowing cultural workers and researchers to create uniform databases with adequate classification schemes as well as multimedia metadata, allowing them to make connections between different cultural heritage objects, thus increasing the knowledge and providing better understanding of cultural heritage;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that good practices in AI for cultural heritage accessibility should be identified and shared amongst cultural networks across the Union, while also encourageing research on the uses of AI for the valorisation, accessibility and preservation of cultural heritage;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that AI can also be used to monitor the illicit trafficking of cultural objects and the destruction of cultural property, whilst supporting data collection for recovery and reconstruction efforts of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3
Subheading 3
Cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI)
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the need to set up a coherent vision of AI in the CCSI at Union level; calls on the Member States to strengthen the focus on culture in their AI national strategies to ensure that cultural diversity is safeguarded and promoted at Union level in the new digital context, while aiming to prevent and reduce creative division;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Stresses the importance of creating an Union wide heterogeneous milieu for AI technologies that will encourage cultural diversity, support minorities and linguistic diversity, while also strengthening the creative sector through online platforms, allowing Union citizens to be included and to participate;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Insists that the European Institute of Technology (EIT), and in particular its future Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) dedicated to cultural and creative industries, should play a leading role in developing a European strategy on AI for education, culture and the audiovisual sector;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12 c. Recalls that AI can be revolutionary tool for promoting cultural tourism and highlights its strong potential in predicting of tourism flows, which could help cities suffering from over- tourism;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses that algorithms used by media service providers and video sharing platforms should be designed in such a way that they dwould guarantee the rights of users to be in control over the content they see, and to not privilege specific works by limiting their ‘personalised’ suggestions to the most popular works, for targeted advertising, commercial purposes or to maximise profit;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses, moreover, that the use of AI in algorithm-based content recommendations on online audiovisual media services, such video on demand services, may have a serious impact on cultural and linguistic diversity, notably regarding the obligation to ensure the prominence of European works under Article 13 of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (Directive (EU) 2018/1808); as well as the actions that the Member States can take to ensure an appropriate visibility for the general interest audio-visual media under article 7b of the aforementioned Directive;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Notes that the shift in the internet and media landscape have increased the number of active users and subsequently the amount of information available while proportionally increasing disinformation and deepfakes, which affect public opinion, resulting in the negative effects on democratic processes and democracy as such;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Highlights the potential of AI to facilitate and encourage multilingualism by developing language-related technologies and enabling the discoverability of online European contents;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18 b. Points out the great potential of AI in the fight against disinformation and fake news, such as real time fact checking and exposing disinformation as well as labelling of malicious, hateful and illegal content;