19 Amendments of Ilana CICUREL related to 2020/2216(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that AI should be used in a fair and ethical manner and with duetechnologies using AI should by design be fair and ethical and respect for Union values and principles, human rights, freedom of expression, the right to privacy, data protection, non- discrimination, media pluralism and cultural diversity; stresses that the Union must strive to become leader in ethical use of AI and must use it to the full potential in order to stay competitive and relevant on the world digital market; highlights that, to achieve this end, it is essential to encourage more people to pursue career in ICT-related sectors, such as data professionals in the AI field, but also professionals in connected new domains like AI-investing, AI safety and others, encouraging a wider activity of the EIT;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the crucial importance of a coherent vision at Union level in order to achieve a genuine digital single market within an AI-powered society that would fully benefit users; emphasises the need to offer learning and training opportunities in order to enable the Union population across all parts and ages of the society to gain basic digital skills and understanding of AI use and its potential and risks in order to use those technologies in their advantage and fully participate in digital market and society;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas these developments plausibly facilitate human-machine synergies, thereby producing a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate outcomes, but also pose serious challenges in terms of workforce reorganisation and the potential elimination of more sectors and employment than the new forms they createand can lead to greater workforce access to previously excluded social groups such as people with disabilities, while risks linked to employment sector disappearance must mitigated by ensuring more and better jobs are created than are lost;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Deplores the omission of culture from AI strategies and policy recommendations at both national and Union level; stresses the need to set up a clear legal framework that prioritises culture in order to bring the Union to the forefront of AI-driven innovation and value creation worldwide and to maximise its benefits, while assessing its potential risks for society; highlights that cooperation with creative and cultural sectors and industries can be invaluable in bringing AI innovation closer to the public and in finding creative solutions and possibilities for AI use;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. Whereas the digital divide has specific socio-economic gender, age, geographic and accessibility aspects which must be addressed;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Highlights that the digital services sector is rapidly developing and therefore stresses the need to ensure that new regulations will not impede the openness of its market; stresses that the principle of net neutrality has to remain the cornerstone of the online sphere;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that AI can be an effective tool forin helping to enforcinge the rules on online content, such as illegal content or fake news, through automated content filtering, and can also be used to help to implement the ‘notice, take down and stay down’ mechanisms; stresses, however, that AIuse of AI, if not properly regulated, may pose challenges to fundamental rights, in particular freedom of expression, as well as access to information, cultural diversity and media pluralism; warns that automated mechanisms to enforce rules online can lead to false positives and inhibit legitimate and fair use, such as critique, caricature, and others; stresses that any use of AI must strictly follow principles of transparency and have clear rules for accountability with an effective appeal mechanism against such a decision guaranteed;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the positive impact AI can have on European labour markets, leading to job creation, safer and more inclusive workplaces, combating discrimination in recruitment and pay and promoting better skill-matching and work-flows, as long as risks are mitigated and regulatory frameworks updated with regularity as the digital wave progresses;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Highlights, that for the European digital market to flourish and to enable effective and ethical AI, vast amounts of quality, compatible data is needed while upholding all privacy rules; emphasises that lack of data specialists and professionals may lead to flawed interpretation of data, which can create biases and skewed results;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. CStresses that the Union needs to strive for unified, unambiguous and up to date rules that do not humper the innovation in the internal market; calls, therefore, for a balanced approach between the deployment of automated enforcement and fundamental rights, in line with the applicable regulatory framework, such as the AVMSD, the Copyright Directive and the future DSA.
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that AI must serve exclusivelyforemost as an aid to human performancedevelopment and comply with all rules ensuring respect for fundamental rights, including the protection of personal data and privacy, and the prohibition of arbitrary profiling, with sufficient access to information available to all those workers and employers who will be affected;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers that a main priority for research and investment in the use of AI should be the creation of opportunities for people previously excluded from employment to have access to labour markets, such as working aid tools, mobility solutions or intelligent sensors systems for people with disabilities or visually impaired, fostering social inclusion and fighting poverty;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
b. Stresses the importance of addressing the digital gender gap and ensuring the participation of women and girls in the development and implementation of digital technologies and AI to ensure that existing inequalities are not exacerbated or replicated; further underlines the importance of women and girls' equal access to STEM and digital education and subsequent employment in the digital, STEM and ICR sectors;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the Commission and the Member States to ensure that the implementation of AI enforcesis included in the dialogue between social and economic partners, and to allow trade unions access to the work floor, albeit in digital form, in orderhat digital solutions are employed to promote collective bargaining and guarantee a human-centred approach to AI at work;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls the importance of cooperation between academics, industry, social partners and governments on research and innovation in digital technologies, so that all human aspects are taken into account1 and that proper and rigorous testing and training frameworks exist in the implementation of AI; __________________ 1 European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, ‘Digitalisation and occupational safety and health – An EU-OSHA research programme’, p. 10.
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Reiterates its call for legal protection for platform workers and telecalls the adoption of the Council Recommendation on Access to social protection for workers and the self- employed and strongly reiterates the need to ensure platform workers, as well as recognition of their status as such, to ensure that their entitlement to full social security protection is uphelworkers in the gig economy have access to adequate to and coverage from social protection; considers that a legislative framework that has the aim of regulating telework conditions across the Union should be introduced;
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to improve labour conditions for platform workers in its upcoming legislative proposal in order to guarantee healthy and safe working environments, quality employment and wages, the right to disconnect, the obligation of employers to offer perpetual digital retraining, and full, transparent checks of employees’ online access to adequate social protection, fair and transparent working conditions, decent wages, right to collective representation, right to disconnect, training offers enabling skilling and re-skilling, as well as reliable verification processes of the platform user's identityies;
Amendment 136 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls onWelcomes the Commission and the Member States to's update thed European Skills Agenda and the new Digital Education Action Plan, so that workers can upskill and become qualified for the challenges of the future world of work; (2021- 2027), which will help workers to up and re-skill and become qualified for the future world of work and manage the digital wave; further welcomes the recently adopted Council Recommendations on VET and calls on the Member States to swiftly implement it by updateing their national vocational and professional training and upskilling programmes so as to ensurhance digital literacy and promote digital inclusion (οn average, 16 % of EU workers fear that digitalisation will render their skills outdated2 ); __________________ 2 Cedefop, ‘Artificial or human intelligence? Digitalisation and the future of jobs and skills: opportunities and risks’, p. 3.