EU ‘in touching distance’ of world’s first laws regulating artificial intelligence

The EU is drawing up a directive to restrict "artificial intelligence".

I get the impression that this directive will also cover machine learning systems. It may be a good thing for the directive to cover those systems, although it is very bad to refer to them as "intelligence".

The restrictions on facial recognition and emotional recognition are a good start, but I expect they will not go far enough; that they will allow those technologies to be used in ways that would circumvent and defeat the supposed limitations.

The article suggests that AI may be used as an excuse to make copyright more restrictive, over activities that have never been restricted by copyright as long as human beings have done them.