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Věra Jourová, European Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency, said that the European Union faces a number of tests this year. She also spoke of the fact that the European Parliament elections could be significantly influenced by artificial intelligence and fake videos created with it.
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According to Jourová, the European Union can be united. “The fact that our position after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will be so strong and united that one package of sanctions against Russia will follow the next and that states will be prepared to contribute financial resources and weapons systems has not only surprised many.” Experts, but above all the Kremlin itself. Russia developed an information campaign and wanted to convince Europeans that Ukrainians do not deserve their state. “It didn’t work at all,” Jourová noted, adding that there is agreement between 26 states regarding Ukraine, and then there is Hungary, which has a different opinion on the matter.
In the interview, Jourová denied that there was a deal with Hungary along the lines of: “We will unblock your money, you will support Ukraine.” “I was very relieved when Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán left the meeting room, behind the scenes drank coffee and thus made it possible to start accession talks with Ukraine. However, there was no connection with the release of blocked funds to Hungary. We have exhausted all options to force Hungary to make changes to the judiciary. It must be said that the Hungarian government really prepared it. For now the changes are only on paper, but if they don’t work in practice we can lock money again. Viktor Orbán knows that,” said Jourová.
She also said it would take years for Ukraine to join the union. “Procedure Montenegro is the closest country to the European Union. Serbia, North Macedonia and Albania, with which accession negotiations have already been opened. However, this year the union will certainly not be expanded to other countries, so negotiations will not progress quickly,” she told Novinky.cz.
According to her, she will not lose any more union members. “Rather, everyone wants to join the union and no one wants to leave.” Anti-European rhetoric will bring many political arguments, we have seen it in the Netherlands and Slovakia, perhaps we will also see it in the Czech Republic. However, when they subsequently sit down at the negotiating table, each head of state and government will make it clear how beneficial it is to remain in the union,” said Jourová.
Finally, she talked about artificial intelligence, where in her opinion the risks of artificial intelligence can only be solved by artificial intelligence that acts on the instructions of a person. “As the technology for deepfake videos evolves, so do the technologies that can detect these videos. There is also a so-called transparency clause in the AI regulation: If an image, video or something else is processed in whole or in part using artificial intelligence, this must be stated. “My signature is on this regulation on AI, the whole thing was written with the idea of not letting the tiger out of the cage, so that artificial intelligence is under human control and does not turn from a good servant into a bad master,” she said .
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