Adrian Weckler

But I think what this new regulation is designed to do is not to give the AI, you know, final say and judgment over whether or not you get a job.

In other words,

you can't be algorithmed out altogether.

And that strikes, probably strikes a lot of people as a decent rule.

I mean, they're becoming quite common.

You know, they're becoming quite common.

I mean, I think we can all see why a company would deploy that if the questions are sharp and if it helps with the process.

It's just where, for example, let's say the AI decides that nobody from Ballymun is going to get a job.

You know, or it has decided, it's looked at the figures and decided that, well, actually, you know, people of this age category or of this gender or from this area or who are from this educational background, they are statistically less likely to succeed.

So therefore, we're going to rule them out, you know?

Yeah, and we've seen it with banks and loans as well.

Before the current news cycle of AI and AI systems arose a few years ago, when particularly US banks started experimenting with tech systems and sort of quasi-AI systems,

They started finding that people who said that put their address down as from a certain area in Los Angeles or big cities were finding that they weren't getting a mortgage or maybe they weren't being seen, say, for an interview to rent an apartment based on the likelihood that if they were from that area, they were probably black.

And there probably are people on the other side of the argument, the kind of the libertarian tech argument, who will say, look, it's a hard, cruel world.

Companies should be allowed to decide anything they want, including not hiring people if they're

you know, older or if they're from a certain educational background.

After all, they screen, they require for, you know, master's degrees, they rate some universities higher than other universities.

But I think the EU's AI Act is an attempt for us to try and agree a certain amount of common base rules that, you know, that we can all agree that yes, we live in a capitalist society and yes, you know,

We want the best to thrive, but at the same time, everybody should have a chance.

Why do you think we take it more seriously in Europe than they do in the States?