At the end of July, the German Social Insurance Agency published its statement on the proposals of the European Commission for the regulation of artificial intelligence in the EU.
The European Commission presented its proposals to regulate the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Community in mid-April this year. The aim is to create a legal framework that the authority has announced to be unique in the world. The aim is to develop Europe into a global center for trustworthy AI. The draft regulation is now being negotiated by the EU institutions and evaluated by a wide range of interest groups.
In its position, the German social insurance welcomes a clarification of the ethical and liability issues, among other things, but has reservations about an overly broad definition of AI. Even if no AI is currently being used in the field of social insurance – at least none with a high risk potential – that may change in the future, she writes, for example through machine learning processes to support person-based and case-based decisions. In this case, the creation of transparency, traceability, non-discrimination and ultimate human responsibility when using machine support procedures is desirable. Against this background, the DSV considers monitoring and control mechanisms to be necessary.
In order to strengthen the trustworthiness of AI, the undersigned advocate that social insurance institutions draw up their own voluntary codes of conduct or that they join the codes of conduct of representative associations for the use of AI applications that do not pose a high risk.
Source: BMB S.A. Gesellschaft für Begleitsysteme und Monitoring Brüssel