Europe Reaches a Deal on the World’s First Comprehensive AI Rules

Researchers have warned that powerful AI models could be used to supercharge online disinformation, cyberattacks or creation of bioweapons. European Union negotiators clinched a deal Friday on the world’s first comprehensive artificial intelligence rules, paving the way for legal oversight of AI technology that has promised to transform everyday life and spurred warnings of existential dangers to humanity. Negotiators from the European Parliament and the…