European Parliament’s Research Service produced a report examining areas of legal conflict between the EU General Data Protection Regulation and the AI Act. The report noted one of the objectives of the AI Act is to mitigate discrimination and bias when using high-risk AI systems, but to accomplish this, “special categories of personal data” need to be processed based on a set of requirements to avoid discrimination. The executive summary states, however, “The GDPR … seems more restrictive in that respect” and claims additional reforms may be necessary.
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