India, March 18 -- The European Parliament recently approved broad legislation governing artificial intelligence, including powerful systems like OpenChatGPT. The draft received approval from 523 EU parliamentarians, with 46 voting against. According to the EU Parliament, the 27 member states are anticipated to approve the law in April before it is published in the bloc's Official Journal in May or June. The AI Act focuses on higher-risk technology applications by the corporate and public sectors, imposing more robust requirements on providers, stricter transparency rules for the most influential models such as ChatGPT, and outright banning technologies deemed too harmful.

Senior European Union officials say the rules, first proposed in ...