[pjc50]

I agree with this. It is horrendously vague, like GDPR. This creates a large "wariness zone" which law-abiding people avoid, while large multinationals can steamroller through until the point of direct confrontation. And even then you get things like Microsoft Safe Harbour.

On the other hand, if you're concerned about AI risk, I don't see how it could be otherwise. We don't have a clear grasp about what the real limits of capabilities are. Some people are promising "AGI" "just around the corner". Other people are spinning tales about gray goo. The risk of automated discrimination looms large since IBM sold Hollerith collation machines to the Holocaust.

If it delays AI "innovation" by forcing only the deployment of solutions which have had at least some check by legal to at least try to avoid harming citizens, that's ... good?