European Parliament buys Claude, a system that can’t accurately tell users who the first president of the European Commission is. 3 April 2025 — In October 2024, the European Parliament selected an AI model to operate a new historical archive where …
The guidelines published by the European Commission on the definition of an artificial intelligence system fail to provide clarity.
9 December 2024 ICCL Enforce responded to the consultation from the European Commission on the application of the definition of AI systems and the prohibitions under the EU AI Act. In our submission we emphasise the need to prohibit two harmful …
8 November 2024 ICCL Enforce responded to the consultation from the European Commission on the Draft Implementing Act establishing the Scientific Panel under the EU AI Act. In our letter in September 2024, we stressed the need to avoid conflicts of …
24 September 2024 ICCL Enforce has written to the European Commission to carefully scrutinise the candidates for the scientific panel to be established under the EU AI Act. AI companies have heavily invested in capturing academia to indirectly influence regulators. …
17 July 2024 ICCL Enforce responded to the consultation from the Irish government on the national implementation of the EU AI Act. By 2 August 2025, the Irish government will appoint the regulators responsible to enforce the AI regulation. ICCL …
13 May 2024 ICCL Enforce along with ally civil society organisations made a joint submission to the CMA, the UK’s competition authority, on three AI partnerships: Microsoft/Inflection, Microsoft/Mistral, and Amazon/Anthropic. The CMA should investigate all these partnerships and assess their …
30 April 2024 ICCL Enforce wrote to the European Commission to keep funding for civil applications and defence applications separate, and not to normalise military research at academic institutions. Open science and international cooperation should be encouraged while funding for …
11 March 2024 ICCL Enforce along with ally civil society organisations made a joint submission to the European Commission’s call for contributions on competition in generative AI. This follows our previous submission to the European Commission that was specific to …
2 February 2024 Earlier this week, ICCL along with a diverse group of organisations made a submission to European Commission on Microsoft-OpenAI “partnership” merger inquiry. The submission builds on our submission to the UK competition authority.See ICCLs related work on …
9 January 2024 Along with a coalition of civil society organisations, ICCL has submitted comments in response to the UK’s competition authority’s Microsoft-OpenAI merger enquiry. Microsoft’s investments in OpenAI and the events of November 2023 indicate the influence Microsoft has …
14 December 2023A political agreement between the European Parliament and the Council of the EU on the Product Liability Directive was reached today. The European Commission had proposed the updated Product Liability Directive (PLD) and a new AI Liability Directive …
29 November 2023Following months of negotiations, the lead committees in the European Parliament voted on a compromise text of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) yesterday. This draft text will next be voted on by the entire European Parliament in …
6 November 2023 In response to a request for documents pertaining to the decision-making behind the proposed CSAM regulation, the European Commission failed to disclose a list of companies who were consulted about the technical feasibility of detecting CSAM without …
25 October 2023The European Commission launched a one-week consultation on 13 October 2023 to gather views on G7 guiding principles on generative AI. These principles will result in a code of conduct, which organisations could commit to. This is not …
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) welcomes the outcome of today’s plenary vote in the European Parliament on the EU’s draft Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. The vote establishes the Parliament’s position on the Act ahead of negotiations with the Council of the EU and the European Commission.
12 June 2023The European Commission sent a request to European standard-setting bodies on 22 May 2023[1] for technical standards related to the requirements for high-risk artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the AI Act. These standards will be as important as …
The draft legislation recognises the significant risks posed by facial recognition technology
10 May 2023After nearly a year of negotiations, the lead committees in the European Parliament have settled on a compromise text of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, the EU’s regulation on AI. This text will be voted on by the …
The proposed European Health Data Space has two problems related to the secondary use of health data. It is not specific about the legal basis and it allows for a broad range of health data uses that carry risks to …
