20 Amendments of Predrag Fred MATIĆ related to 2020/2216(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
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1. Recalls that AI should be developed, deployed and used in a fair and ethical manner with a human centric approach and with due respect for Union values and principles, human rights, freedom of expression and information, the right to privacy, data protection, non- discrimination, media freedom and pluralism and cultural diversity; underlines that the legal framework on AI requires the strict consideration of fundamental rights, ethical aspects and legal safeguards in order to protect our democratic societies and citizens as users and consumers of AI systems; emphasises that transparency and independent oversight are crucial in order to avoid all forms of abuse and to ensure the rule of law;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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1 a. Stresses that gender stereotypes greatly influence study choices and hence, career choices: less than 3% of teenage girls in EU Member States express an interest in working as an ICT professional at the age of 301a; _________________ 1a2018 International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
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1 a. Recalls that the digital future of Europe must be socially inclusive and must leave no one behind; expresses, in this respect, concerns about the discrepancies in access to information, education and jobs created by the digital gap; reiterates its call on the Commission and the Member States to diligently address this gap including through adequate investments in infrastructure, equipment and resources, as well as the implementation and assessment of the Digital Education Action Plan;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
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1 b. Recalls that globally only 22 % of AI professionals are female; whereas the lack of women in AI development not only increases the risk of bias, but also the risk that the products developed are not specially catered to the needs of female consumers;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
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1 c. Highlights that one of AI’s biggest weaknesses relates to conveying certain types of biases, such as the ones related to gender, as a result of humans’ inherent biases being reproduced and magnified through the design, input and use of AI systems; considers that AI has great potential to promote gender equality provided that the transformation of human biases and prejudices into digital ones through algorithms is fought and this requires high data quality standards for the training and validation of AI systems;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
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1 d. Takes note that 30% of entrepreneurs, in the EU, are women, but they only receive 2% of the non-bank financing available1a, making it harder for them to participate in the digital economy; _________________ 1aFunding women entrepreneurs. How to empower growth. European Commission, 2018
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
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1 e. Recalls that the ICT sector is the sector with the highest percentage of all- male company boards; and welcomes the Commission’s intention to encourage the adoption of the 2012 proposal for a Directive on gender balance among non- executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges (the Women on Boards Directive);
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
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1 f. Stresses that the Fundamental Rights Agency’s survey on violence against women shows that high incidences of sexual harassment have been reported in STEM education sites, including in schools, universities and workplaces, which further excludes women from the sector;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
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2. Stresses the crucial importance of a coherent visregulation at Union level in order to achieve a genuine digital single market within an AI-powerassisted society that would fully benefit uscitizens as users and consumers;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
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2. Highlights that gender equality is a core principle of the European Union and should be reflected in all EU policies; underlines the importance of ensuring gender mainstreaming in digital education at all levels; recalls that women’s participation in the digital economy is crucial to shaping a flourishing digital society and to boosting the EU’s digital internal market;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
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2 a. Emphasises the potential of AI- technologies for cultural and creative sectors and industries, from better audience management, outreach and engagement to assisted content curation revalorising cultural archives, as well as assisted fact-checking and data journalism; stresses further the potential of AI-based tools such as text-to-speech and speech-to-text, automated subtitling and translation to enhance access to culture, information and education for vulnerable groups such as visually and hearing impaired people;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
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3 a. Asks for, in what concerns measures in education, the Commission and the Member States to set up mentoring schemes with female role models in ICT within all levels of education starting from an early age; also calls on the Commission and the Member States to support lifelong learning, as well as training and schemes to boost the e- skills, upskilling and reskilling of girls and women;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
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3. Deplores the omission of culture from AI strategies and policy recommendations at both national and Union level; stresses the need to set up a clear legal framework that prioritisesfor an ethical, sustainable and socially responsible AI that prioritises creativity and access to culture in order to bring the Union to the forefront of AI-driven innovation and, value creation worldwide and to maximise its benefits, while assessing its potential risks for society;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Asks for, in what concerns measures in employment, the Council to unblock and adopt the Woman on Boards directive; urges Member States to fully transpose and implement the work life balance directive; calls on the Commission and Member States to reduce the gender gap in the digital economy through targeted measures, including European funds to finance female-led projects in the digital sector, the promotion of a minimum number of women researchers participating in ICT projects, training courses for HR departments on ‘unconscious gender- discriminatory bias’ to promote gender- balanced recruitment, adoption of public procurement policies and/or guidelines on the purchase of ICT services from providers that apply a gender balance in the composition of their companies and boards, and facilitating the distribution of European funds to companies that take into account gender balance criteria;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
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4. Considers that AI can significantly contribute to promoting gender equality, provided that an appropriate legal and ethical framework is developed, conscious and unconscious biases are eliminated and the principles of gender equality are respected; stresses the lack of diversity in the AI sector within teams of developers and engineers, and the importance of using sex- disaggregated data when developing products, AI standards, algorithms and applications; encourages the relevant actors to take action and promote a greater participation of women in the design, development and implementation of machine learning, natural language processing and AI;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
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4. Emphasises that the transposition of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) into national law is crucial to achieving a genuine digital single market; urges the Member States that have not yet done so to complete the transposition as soon as possible; stresses that the future Digital Services Act (DSA) and, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) as well as any future regulation on AI, with particular regard to the cultural and creative sectors, should be in line with the principles and obligations of the AVMSD;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
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5. Points out that AI can be an effective tool for enforcing the rules on online content, such as identifying illegal content or fake news, through automated content filtering,, disinformation or fake news and can also be used to implement the ‘notice, take down and stay down’ mechanisms; stresses, however, that AI may pose challenges to fundamental rights, in particular freedom of expression, as well as access to information, cultural diversity and media pluralism and recalls in this regard, the need for AI to respect fundamental rights and Union law when developed, deployed and used in the Union; emphasises that human intervention is necessary to filter out disinformation in order to avoid inappropriate removals e.g. when humour or irony are expressed, since AI-systems cannot evaluate the context;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
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6. Calls for special attention to be paid to women as vulnerablethe needs of women consumers and to the rise in cyber violence against women in the digital world, and welcomesasks for the Commission’s proposal on the digital services act (COM(2020)0825), which is addressing these issu to address these issues; calls for campaigns to raise awareness and educate women in how to protect themselves online, and to combat gender-based violence and gender stereotypes; urges the Commission and the Member States to work closely with and involve women’s civil society organisations in order to better respond to and alleviate the concerns that exist in the everyday life of women and girls when designing and implementing consumer and public tech policies.
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
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6. Calls, therefore, for a balanced approach between the deployment of automated enforcement and fundamental rights,human- centric and careful approach towards automated decision-making, by all means respectful and protective of fundamental rights and ethical aspects, and which is in line with the applicable regulatory framework, such as the AVMSD, the Copyright Directive and the future DSA.DSA package;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
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6 a. Recalls the urgent need for fairer competition for CCSIs online services in Europe in order to counter the networking and concentration effects of the data market that tend to unfairly benefit large digital companies; welcomes, in that respect, the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) Commission proposals of 15 December 2020 that should help to further shape the digital future of Europe.