🇳🇱 Netherlands: Half of the members of parliament have used AI to write their plenary speeches this year. Far-right lawmakers are particularly avid users. [Investico, 21 Oct in Dutch]
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🇷🇴 Romania: A bill supported by a large majority of members of parliament aims to prohibit chatbots from providing personalized legal advice, such as the drafting of contracts. [Digi24, 21 Oct in Romanian]
🪖 NATO: Palantir's vice president for Europe swears up and down that the company cannot interrupt the services it provides, even if the United States requests it. NATO's European headquarters uses Maven software to automatically organize and analyze military information. [Reuters, 22 Oct]
🇩🇪 Germany: In September, the Poison Information of Göttingen received three times as many inquiries regarding potential mushroom poisoning as it did in the same month last year. According to the center, confidence in chatbots' capacity to identify shrooms are partly responsible for this trend. [NDR, 22 Oct in German]
🇫🇷 France: The government plans to massively use face recognition to identify people seen “pillaging” in videos posted on social media. [Mediapart, 21 Oct 🔒 in French]
🇫🇷 France: The employment agency plans an AI system to analyze all informations related to a claimant. Human caseworkers would only have to validate the result. [La Quadrature du Net, 23 Oct in French]