9 Amendments of Bart GROOTHUIS related to 2020/2012(INL)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the endorsement, by the 2019 Meeting of High Contracting Parties to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), of 11 Guiding Principles for the development and use of autonomous weapons systems;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that a UnionRecommends that a EU Member States' framework regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled systems in defence must respect all applicable legal regimes, in particular the international humanitarian law and the international human rights law, and be in compliance with Union law, principles and values; calls on the Union to assess the inherent AI-related risks with regard to the application of Union law, and foresee necessary adjustment and enforcement where needed;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that current and future defence-related activities within the Union framework will draw on AI, on robotics and autonomy, and on related technologies and that the Union must assume leading role in research and development of AI systems in defence field; believes that the use of AI-enabled applications in defence offer number of direct benefits such as higher quality collected data, greater situational awareness, increased speed for decision-making, reduced risk of collateral damage thanks to better cabling, protection of forces on the ground, as well as greater reliability of military equipment; recalls that AI systems are also becoming key elements in countering emerging security threats;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that AI technologies are, in essence, dual use; highlights that AI in defence-related activities is a transverse disruptive technology whose development may provide opportunities for the competitiveness and the strategic autonomy of the EU;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights that, based on a human- centric approach, the Union follows a path of responsibility, of protecting our citizens, and of defending our values, whilst seizing the opportunities that those technologies offer as well as realizing that AI enabled systems will be a key element in future defence-developments and defensive capabilities;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines that the Union, in connection with the work carried out by the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons’ Governmental Expert Group, must be at the forefront of mastering those technologies by establishing well defined processes for their use, for understanding the related ethical aspects and for fostering an effective international regulatory framework that contains the inherent risks of these technologies and prevents use for malicious purposes; those include in particular unintended harm to persons, be it material or immaterial, such as breach of fundamental rights;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls that most of current military powers worldwide have already engaged in significant R&D efforts related to the military dimension of AI; considers that the EU must see to it that it does not lag behind in this regard; Stresses that for any defence application of AI enabled systems, the Union should set technical and organisational standards to ensure their resilience against cyber-attacks and digital influence, as well as their compliance with the highest possible trustworthiness standards as regards the collection and exploitation of operational data;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stressed that all AI-systems in defence must have a concrete and well- defined domain of usemission framework and must be endowed with the ability to detect and disengage or diseactivate deployed systems should they move from their domain of usebeyond the mission framework defined and assigned by the human command or engage in any escalatory or unintended action;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines that the entire responsibility for the decision to design, develop, deploy and use AI-systems must rest on human operators and the human- in-the-loop principle must also be applied to the command and control of AI-enabled systems control should remain effective for the command and control, following a human- on-the-loop principle at the military leadership level; stresses that AI-enabled systems must allow the military leadership to assume its full responsibility and exercise the necessary level of judgment for taking lethal or large-scale destructive action be means of such systems;