Control view

Due to the rapid technological progress, AI and algorithms call for unabated attention. The technological developments offer opportunities, but also come with risks. This sometimes calls for new control instruments. The threshold to use AI is becoming ever lower, including for consumers. The possibilities of new applications, such as AI agents, cause additional complexities. This makes control both more important and more difficult.

Steps in the right direction

With AI and algorithmic frameworks, the Netherlands is taking steps in the right direction and demonstrates that it is aware of risks for fundamental rights. But registration of AI and algorithmic applications is still insufficient, as a result of which an adequate insight into high-risk applications and incidents is still lacking.

The Dutch approach tries to strike a balance between supporting this new technology, for example through AI test environments, and safeguarding fundamental rights, for example by implementing risk-based regulations (the AI Act).

AI and algorithmic frameworks that are currently established offer a useful concretisation. Technological innovation keeps constantly calling for new steps in the understanding of AI and algorithms and how they can be controlled. Grip on incidents is also a point for improvement.

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