3 Amendments of Lara WOLTERS related to 2020/2014(INL)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas any future-orientated liability framework has to strike a balance between efficiently protecting potential victims of harm orensure that affected persons are appropriately protected against damage and that the same time, providing enough leeway to make the development of new technologies, products or services possible; whereas ultimatelyy are able to claim for compensation in all cases where this seems justified, the goal of any liability framework should be to provide legal certainty for all parties, whether it be the producer, the deployemanufacturer, the developer, the programmer, the backend operator, the frontend operator, the affected person or any other third party;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the legal system of a Member State can exclude liability for certain actors or can make it stricter for certain activities; whereas strict liability means that a party can be liable despite the absence of fault; whereas in many national tort laws, the defendant is held strictly liable if a risk materializes which that defendant has created for the public, such as in the form of cars or hazardous activities, or which he cannot control, like animals; whereas strict liability lies on the person that has control over the risks of the operation or is responsible for them;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas Artificial Intelligence (AI)- systems and other emerging digital technologies, such as the Internet of Things or distributed ledger technologies present significant legal challenges for the existing liability framework and could lead to situations, in which their opacity, couldmplexity, modification through updates or self-learning during operation, limited predictability, and vulnerability to cybersecurity threats make it extremely expensivedifficult or even impossible to identify who was in control of the risk associated with the AI- system or which code or input has ultimately caused the harmful operation;