RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, September 29, passed a bill establishing principles and guidelines for the development and use of artificial intelligence (the ability of a machine or system to learn commands on its own and use them).
Using this kind of technology to violate the protection of free competition or to engage in abusive market practices will be forbidden.
The text will now be debated by the Senate.
Deputy Eduardo Bismarck’s bill determines that the government issue regulations with guidelines to monitor the risk management of artificial intelligence systems and establish the rights and duties of anyone using the technology.
The bill’s rapporteur Luísa Canziani said that technology is dynamic and constantly evolving, and that the bill seeks not to limit this. “We seek to build a principled law that promotes the use of technology while bearing in mind that people are at the center of this debate,” she said.
The leftist PSOL was the only party to position itself against the approval. Its leader deputy Talíria Petrone highlighted that the text has been improved, but demanded more public hearings on the subject.
“It is a very worthy topic, which must be addressed by this House, but it merits, like the Civil Rights Framework for the Internet, a broader and longer debate, so that there will be no gaps that may surprise us later on, when enforcing the law,” she said.