Activities of Ádám KÓSA related to 2020/2216(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Digital future of Europe: digital single market and use of AI for European consumers (debate)
Amendments (38)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Fourth Industrial Revolution, digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI) are leading to fundamental and structural changes to the labour market, the workplace and the work profile of every worker; whereas by accelerating decision-making, improving processes and personalising services, AI has a remarkable potential for boosting our economy, increasing our well-being and making our society more inclusive and sustainable;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Fourth Industrial Revolution, digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI) are leading to fundamental and structural changes to the labour market, the workplace, the work patterns and the work profile of every worker;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas new opportunities brought by digital transformation and digital single market should empower and allow to prosper all EU citizens;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas digitalisation and artificial intelligence has the potential to substantially change the way people receive information, the way they communicate and the way they think;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas greater challenges are posed on the synergies between labour market and education system as the education system should better foresee the future needs of the labour market and be able to adapt accordingly;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas the use of AI holds potential for safer and more inclusive workplaces and labour markets;
Amendment 15 #
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 createsome employment sectors while at the same time creation of new employment opportunities;
Amendment 18 #
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 create, and the creation of new ones;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the demand for specific AI skills and for high-level expertise is increasing in the labour market, all European citizens need to have the necessary understanding of AI to be able to conduct their everyday lives;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. Acknowledging the potential of AI to increase productivity, improve jobs’ quality and allow workers to focus on more gratifying and less dangerous tasks;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas according to the 2019 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), 43 % of the EU population had an insufficient level of digital skills in 2017;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas artificial intelligence (including high risk AI) is increasingly used not only in the work place but also in the recruitment and other administrative processes;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas human oversight and transparency are an essential element in ensuring that AI systems are in conformity with the relevant legislation;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that during the design, development, deployment and application of AI, fundamental rights and effective legal norms must be fully respected, the future regulatory framework for AI in the European Union should ensure that workers’ rights are fully respected and adapted to the new forms of work relations and work organisation, in a way that secures jobs and improves upon wages and working conditions, while safeguarding the quality of employment; stresses, in addition, that the European AI framework should respect European values, Union rules and the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the future regulatory framework for AI in the European Union shouldmust ensure that workers’ human dignity and rights are fully respected and adapted to the new forms of work relations and work organisation, in a way that secures jobs and improves upon wages and working conditions, while safeguarding the quality of employment as well as workers´ work-life balance; stresses, in addition, that the European AI framework should respect European values, Union rules and the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights and set clear and predictable rules for civil liability connected to AI;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the urgent need to recognize the ethics-by-default principle as a leading principle for the design and use of artificial intelligence;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that AI must serve exclusively as an aid tocomplement and augment human performance and comply with all rules ensuring respect for fundamental rights, including the protection of personal data and privacy, and the prohibitincluding the relevant GDPR provisions of arbitraryn the automated individual decision-making, including profiling;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. uUnderlines that AI must serve exclusivelysince AI is performing better and better in routine tasks, which might help humans concentrate on the things they are best at, AI must primarily serve as an aid to human performance and comply with all rules ensuring respect for fundamental rights, including the protection of personal data and privacy, and the prohibition of arbitrary profiling, and employees must be ensured the same level of protection in the digital and the physical world too;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that AI must always be human-centric and thus serve exclusively as an aid to human performance and comply with all rules ensuring respect for fundamental rights with human dignity at the forefront, including the protection of personal data and privacy, and the prohibition of arbitrary profiling;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines that new technologies including AI should be used to improve labour market functioning and produce sustainable and inclusive labour market matches between workers and businesses;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the Commission and the Member States to ensure that the implementation of AI enforces the dialogue between social partners and, by complying with EU and Member State legislation, to allow trade unions access to the work floor, albeit in digital form, in order to promote collective bargaining and guarantee a human-centred approach to AI at work;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls the importance of cooperation between academics, industry, social partners and governments on research, ensuring social sustainability and innovation in digital technologies, so that all human aspects are taken into account1; __________________ 1 European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, ‘Digitalisation and occupational safety and health – An EU-OSHA research programme’, p. 10.
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Reiterates the importance of such cooperation for better and timely monitoring and data gathering, with the aim of anticipating new types of jobs and necessary skills, and in general the short and long-term impact of AI on the labour market;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that the use of AI applications, algorithms and process development affecting all aspects of work and workers’ rights, such as recruitment processes, must not discriminate against workers and vulnerable groups or reinforce inequalities on the pretext of gender, age, disability or nationality; the principles of equality and non-discrimination must be respected in the design, development, deployment, application and evaluation of AI and systems integrating machine learning in particular, and it must be ensured that such systems are subject to adequate safeguards and oversight;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that the use of AI applications, algorithms and process development affecting all aspects of work and workers’ rights, such as recruitment processes, must not discriminate against workers and vulnerable groups or reinforce inequalities on the pretext of gendersex, age, disability or nationality;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that the use of AI applications, algorithms and process development affecting all aspects of work and workers’ rights, such as recruitment processes, must not discriminate against workers and vulnerable groups or reinforce inequalities and bias on the pretext of gender, age, disability or nationality, health condition and motherhood;
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Reiterates its call for legal protection for platform workers and teleworkers, as well as recognition of their status as such, to ensure that their entitlement to full social security protection is upheld, and stresses that the situation where decisions on platform workers are defined mostly by algorithms based on AI, as a result of the ever increasing application of AI, must be dealt with appropriately;
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Highlights the potential of artificial intelligence to mitigate the inequalities in society and stresses the need to focus on the solutions provided by the artificial intelligence that can help the most vulnerable groups like persons with disabilities or persons living in remote or rural areas to improve their opportunities on the labour market;
Amendment 124 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Recalls that the process of machine learning needs to be based on a sufficient amount of quality and diverse data that prevent the incidence of biased algorithms; calls therefore on the Commission and the Member States to cooperate in the collection of quality and diverse data ensuring the unbiased AI to avoid possible collateral deepening of inequalities in the society;
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the CommissionGiven that the cross-border nature of platform-based companies and the ensuing uncertainty in connection with rights and obligations, as well as the lack of transparency in the algorithm-based governance of the workforce makes it harder for employees to exercise their rights, calls on the Commission to handle the issue of uncertain labour conditions and insufficient social protection at an EU level with due consideration of the national labour market models of Member States in order 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 identity;
Amendment 137 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. CStresses the urgent need for adaptation if Europe wants to satisfy emerging learning needs, and wants to enter the digital era, and since a more comprehensive and systematic approach to education and training is necessary to establish an environment enabling continuous and life-long learning, calls on the Commission and the Member States to update the European Skills Agenda and the Digital Education Action Plan, so that workers can upskill and become qualified for the challenges of the future world of work; calls on the Member States to update their national vocational and professional training and upskilling programmes so as to ensure 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.
Amendment 140 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to update the European Skills Agenda and the Digital Education Action Plan, so that workers can upskill and become qualified for the challenges of the future world of work; calls on the Member States to update their national vocational and professional training and upskilling programmes so as to ensure digital literacy and promote digital inclusion (οn average, 16 % of EU workers fear that digitalisation will render their skills outdated2 ) and address a possibly increasing divide between highly skilled and low-skilled workers; __________________ 2 Cedefop, ‘Artificial or human intelligence? Digitalisation and the future of jobs and skills: opportunities and risks’, p. 3.
Amendment 141 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to update the European Skills Agenda and the Digital Education Action Plan, so that workers can reskill or upskill and become qualified for the challenges of the future world of work; calls on the Member States to update their national vocational and professional training and upskill, reskilling, upskilling and lifelong learning programmes so as to ensure 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.
Amendment 145 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Underlines the need to design education and training modules for mid- career professionals to allow themselves to re-skill and prepare for job transitions;
Amendment 146 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Stresses the need to integrate STEM courses in different education levels as well as transversal and horizontal soft skills and critical thinking;
Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Stresses the importance of mobilising available EU funds in order to boost the uptake of AI by SMEs and enable them to have better access to datasets of good quality, as well as attract talent;
Amendment 149 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve occupational health and safety regulations in the context of human-machine synergies and to safeguard workers’ psychological and mental balance through expert support and an EU directive on work-related stress.
Amendment 153 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve occupational health and safety regulations in the context of human-machine synergies and to safeguard workers’ psychological and mental balance through expert support and an EU directive on work-related stress, with particular regard to the changes stemming from the spread of working from home.