EU leaders vote to limit Al, ban public face-scanning

The European Parliament voted to completely ban real-time, remote biometric surveillance-a decision that will put lawmakers at odds with the European Union's (EU's) 27 countries in upcoming negotiations

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The blanket ban, which was previously agreed by lawmakers, was up in the air after a political deal fell apart late last week.

Lawmakers also passed additional measures for general purpose AI and foundational models like GPT-4. Under the parliament's plan, companies such as OpenAI and Google would have to perform risk assessments and summarize the copyrighted material used to train their models regardless of how they're used.

The parliament's entire draft of the AI Act passed on Wednesday, paving the way for the so-called "trilogue" negotiations between the parliament, EU member states, and European Commission to start later in the day.