The French expert report recommends tighter regulation of generative artificial intelligence.
Xinhua News Agency, Paris, November 10 (Reporter Luo Yu) The French Presidential Palace announced on the 10th in a statement that a French expert committee submitted a report to President Macron on the same day, recommending strengthening generative artificial intelligence to monitor regulation, and prevent the potential harm of creating personal artificial intelligence, such as health and social measures, such as limiting cognitive intelligence and social. Flattery and maintenance mechanisms, conducting interdisciplinary risk assessments before the market and strengthening education.
The report was prepared by the French Commission for Artificial Intelligence and Digital. After 55 hearings, nine interdisciplinary experts proposed 18 policy recommendations focusing on risks at the personal and societal level.
The report noted that generative artificial intelligence is widely used, with 33 million unique users in France at the start of this year, but a quarter of French are concerned about its potential risks.
Studies show that excessive use of artificial intelligence may harm the cognitive development of users. For example, frequent use of chat bots for writing can lead to significant cognitive decline. Artificial intelligence tools are increasingly characterized by anthropomorphism and flattery, which can lead to emotional dependence in users. Artificial intelligence may also make online violence worse.
In response to the above risks, the expert committee submitted 18 recommendations, including limiting the flattery and excessive anthropomorphism of artificial intelligence systems at the design level, to prevent companies from exploiting the psychological weaknesses of users for profit. At the same time, the supervision should be transferred from correction after the discovery of violations to the prevention of risks in advance, and generative artificial intelligence products for ordinary consumers should be required to undergo interdisciplinary risk assessments before they are released to the market. The committee also recommended that AI education should be popularized among children from an early age to train the next generation to be able to use AI but not rely on AI.