Wow, that's a pretty badly researched post. And not one of the comments corrected it, during the three days it's been up. Instead they mostly gloated in a rather shallow and uninformed way.
Typical example: "The thought police have finally come to stop us from updating our beliefs…". Is this idiocy/jingoism a columbia.edu thing or is it isolated to their statistics department?
The meat of the the proposal starts at page 43 (https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=75788), which begins with:
The following artificial intelligence practices shall be prohibited:
(a) the placing on the market, putting into service or use of an AI system that
deploys subliminal techniques beyond a person’s consciousness in order to
materially distort a person’s behaviour in a manner that causes or is likely to
cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm;
(b) the placing on the market, putting into service or use of an AI system that
exploits any of the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons due to their
age, physical or mental disability, in order to materially distort the behaviour of
a person pertaining to that group in a manner that causes or is likely to cause
that person or another person physical or psychological harm;
So, yes, the EU is proposing regulating the use of e.g. bayesian estimation in implementing these practices.
Typical example: "The thought police have finally come to stop us from updating our beliefs…". Is this idiocy/jingoism a columbia.edu thing or is it isolated to their statistics department?
The meat of the the proposal starts at page 43 (https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=75788), which begins with:
The following artificial intelligence practices shall be prohibited: (a) the placing on the market, putting into service or use of an AI system that deploys subliminal techniques beyond a person’s consciousness in order to materially distort a person’s behaviour in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm;
(b) the placing on the market, putting into service or use of an AI system that exploits any of the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons due to their age, physical or mental disability, in order to materially distort the behaviour of a person pertaining to that group in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm;
So, yes, the EU is proposing regulating the use of e.g. bayesian estimation in implementing these practices.