AI Act exemptions, cut-outs and broad mandates top issues late in bill’s negotiations

As the fifth round of trilogue negotiations on the European Union's proposed AI Act began this week in the EU Council, moving the massive legislation closer to finalization, the algorithm community is rushing in with make-or-break demands.

For instance, MEP Dragoș Tudorache, Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee rapporteur, has outlined three "major blocks" to negotiations.

One of them is the number of exemptions that the EU Council is advocating for law enforcement. This matter is intrinsically tied …

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