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37300 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
They aren’t on this list, but you should watch them anyway. — AG
Let the Right One In
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Cast: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar
Where to watch: Hulu, Prime Video, Roku Channel, Crackle, Hoopla, Kanopy
A 12-year-old Swedish boy finds ... |
37301 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
— AG
Let the Right One In
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Cast: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar
Where to watch: Hulu, Prime Video, Roku Channel, Crackle, Hoopla, Kanopy
A 12-year-old Swedish boy finds a friend in a vampire who looks roughly his age, but is actu... |
37302 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
The film is kaleidoscopic, each viewing revealing something different than the last. The first time I saw the film, I was a pessimistic college student, and I read the central relationship as a warning about the parasitic nature of love. After college, the children’s bond ... |
37303 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
After college, the children’s bond reminded me of the impermanence of youth, and why growing up is a mixed blessing. This past year, I was far more focused on the girl’s relationship with her caretaker, an older man who sacrifices everything for her existence.
The film wa... |
37304 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
This past year, I was far more focused on the girl’s relationship with her caretaker, an older man who sacrifices everything for her existence.
The film was adapted from John Ajvide Lindqvist’s 2004 novel of the same name, which inspired not just this Swedish film, but a ... |
37305 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
The latter has its own legacy — it was adapted by the magnificent National Theater of Scotland, and it eventually had a run at St. Ann’s Warehouse in 2015. Few books inspire so much additional great art. So I suppose I’m recommending the book just as much as the film. —Chr... |
37306 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
The latter has its own legacy — it was adapted by the magnificent National Theater of Scotland, and it eventually had a run at St. Ann’s Warehouse in 2015. Few books inspire so much additional great art. So I suppose I’m recommending the book just as much as the film. —Chr... |
37307 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
—Chris Plante
Malignant
Director: James Wan
Cast: Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, George Young
Where to watch: Max
There was just no way to see it coming. After the Conjuring and Insidious franchises, plus blockbuster turns with Furious 7 and Aquaman, James Wan could... |
37308 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Instead, he made Malignant, a high-emotion giallo stuffed into dingy ’90s direct-to-video pastiche like some kind of horror-movie turducken. Wan pulls back the layers in an almost tedious fashion: The pregnant Madison (Annabelle Wallis) is first the victim of domestic abus... |
37309 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Wan pulls back the layers in an almost tedious fashion: The pregnant Madison (Annabelle Wallis) is first the victim of domestic abuse, then she encounters another killer, and then she starts dealing with psychotic episodes tied to her childhood imaginary friend Gabriel, an... |
37310 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Strung together with a melodramatic cover of The Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind,” reveling in horror tropes to the point of parody, the final twists of Malignant are some of the most gratifying lunacy of the year, and the acrobatic actor Marina Mazepa brings it all home in a di... |
37311 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
I won’t explain anything more out of fear of spoilers — just get on the Malignant train. Wan put his dream (nightmare?) on screen for us all to enjoy. —Matt Patches
The Mist
Director: Frank Darabont
Cast: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden
Where to watch: Di... |
37312 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Wan put his dream (nightmare?) on screen for us all to enjoy. —Matt Patches
The Mist
Director: Frank Darabont
Cast: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden
Where to watch: Digital rental/purchase
Any fan of Stephen King worth their salt knows that the so-called ... |
37313 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Few films have managed to eclipse, let alone successfully adapt, King’s capacity for horror storytelling, with the exception of (a) Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and (b) Frank Darabont’s The Mist.
Darabont’s third adaptation of a Stephen King story, the film stars Thomas ... |
37314 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Few films have managed to eclipse, let alone successfully adapt, King’s capacity for horror storytelling, with the exception of (a) Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and (b) Frank Darabont’s The Mist.
Darabont’s third adaptation of a Stephen King story, the film stars Thomas ... |
37315 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Darabont’s third adaptation of a Stephen King story, the film stars Thomas Jane (The Expanse) as a Hollywood poster artist living in Maine who, along with his wife and son and the rest of his neighbors, takes shelter in a supermarket in the wake of a mysterious storm that ... |
37316 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
The ending is a gut-punch and sincerely one of the most chilling in any mainstream horror film of its time. If you’ve managed to go unspoiled until now, I won’t ruin the surprise, but needless to say, it’s worth it. —TE
Night of the Living Dead
Director: George A. Romero... |
37317 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
The ending is a gut-punch and sincerely one of the most chilling in any mainstream horror film of its time. If you’ve managed to go unspoiled until now, I won’t ruin the surprise, but needless to say, it’s worth it. —TE
Night of the Living Dead
Director: George A. Romero... |
37318 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
—TE
Night of the Living Dead
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Marilyn Eastman
Where to watch: Max, Peacock, MGM Plus, Paramount Plus, Roku Channel
The movie that launched the modern zombie film in the United States, George A. Romero’s debut ... |
37319 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
In this film, a group of survivors hide out in an abandoned house in western Pennsylvania at the start of a zombie apocalypse. Led by the level-headed Ben (Duane Jones), the group not only has to deal with the conflict of zombies trying to break in, but internal conflicts ... |
37320 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
In this film, a group of survivors hide out in an abandoned house in western Pennsylvania at the start of a zombie apocalypse. Led by the level-headed Ben (Duane Jones), the group not only has to deal with the conflict of zombies trying to break in, but internal conflicts ... |
37321 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Night of the Living Dead is the first example of Romero’s typical blend of jaw-dropping (and stomach-churning) practical effects and astute social commentary. Fun fact: This movie came out a month before the MPAA film rating system, which meant a heaping amount of controve... |
37322 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
And another fun fact: Night of the Living Dead was never copyrighted and is in the public domain because of an error by the original theatrical distributor. —PV
Possession
Director: Andrzej Żuławski
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent
Where to watch: Shudde... |
37323 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
And another fun fact: Night of the Living Dead was never copyrighted and is in the public domain because of an error by the original theatrical distributor. —PV
Possession
Director: Andrzej Żuławski
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent
Where to watch: Shudde... |
37324 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Known for his transgressive brand of arthouse cinema, Żuławski’s career was stymied by Communist authorities in his homeland of Poland, with many of his early films being either heavily censored, banned, or, in one instance, nearly destroyed upon release. It also doesn’t h... |
37325 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
It also doesn’t help that the few films of his that have been released in the States have since gone out of print — though that appears to be changing soon.
If you do know Żuławski’s name, it’s likely for his 1981 psychological horror film Possession, a film whose cult st... |
37326 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
It also doesn’t help that the few films of his that have been released in the States have since gone out of print — though that appears to be changing soon.
If you do know Żuławski’s name, it’s likely for his 1981 psychological horror film Possession, a film whose cult st... |
37327 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Fortunately for everyone, that’s no longer the case.
Set in Cold War-era West Berlin, Żuławski’s film stars Jurassic Park’s Sam Neill as Mark, a Russian spy who returns home to find that his wife, Anna (Isabelle Adjani), has left him and wants a divorce. When Anna refuses... |
37328 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
When Anna refuses to divulge why, only saying that she has not left him for someone else, Mark grows suspicious and has her tailed. What he eventually discovers is a horrifying secret beyond his comprehension, one which awakens a long-dormant wellspring of anxiety, resentm... |
37329 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
When Anna refuses to divulge why, only saying that she has not left him for someone else, Mark grows suspicious and has her tailed. What he eventually discovers is a horrifying secret beyond his comprehension, one which awakens a long-dormant wellspring of anxiety, resentm... |
37330 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
An inspiration for everything from Ari Aster’s Midsommar to the 2016 music video for Massive Attack’s “Voodoo in My Blood,” Possession is an essential watch for any serious horror fan. —TE
[REC]
Directors: Jaume Balaguero, Paco Plaza
Cast: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraz... |
37331 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
An inspiration for everything from Ari Aster’s Midsommar to the 2016 music video for Massive Attack’s “Voodoo in My Blood,” Possession is an essential watch for any serious horror fan. —TE
[REC]
Directors: Jaume Balaguero, Paco Plaza
Cast: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraz... |
37332 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Set squarely in the zombie-craze of the mid-2000s, [REC]’s undead creatures owe quite a bit to the raving cannibal infected of 28 Days Later, but the Spanish movie’s flesh-eaters are quite a bit creepier and more disturbed than their predecessors. While many found-footage ... |
37333 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
While many found-footage movies obscure their scariest moments, [REC] uses the format to enhance its creeping dread and drag out the character’s slow careful exploration of the apartment building, ramping the tension up to 11 just in time for the downright terrifying final... |
37334 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
— AG
Sputnik
Director: Egor Abramenko
Cast: Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov
Where to watch: Hulu
If you’re hungry for a great piece of contemporary Russian sci-fi horror (i.e., something not directed by either Andrei Tarkovsky or Yakov Protazanov), ... |
37335 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Set during 1983 at the height of Cold War tensions, Sputnik (which for your information is Russian for “fellow traveler”) centers on Tatyana (Oskana Akinshina), an uncompromising young psychiatrist with a staunch attitude with regard to the ends justifying the means. Tatya... |
37336 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Set during 1983 at the height of Cold War tensions, Sputnik (which for your information is Russian for “fellow traveler”) centers on Tatyana (Oskana Akinshina), an uncompromising young psychiatrist with a staunch attitude with regard to the ends justifying the means. Tatya... |
37337 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Tatyana is recruited by the Soviet military to treat Konstantin (Pyotr Fyodorov), a wounded cosmonaut and the lone survivor of a mysterious satellite crash. Only upon arriving at the remote hospital facility housing the patient and interacting with him does Tatyana come to... |
37338 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Caught between her duty to study the creature and her desire to save Konstantin from further harm, Tatyana must make a hard decision upon which the very survival of all humanity may rest.
What makes Abramenko’s debut so compelling is how it takes the basic premise of the ... |
37339 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
What makes Abramenko’s debut so compelling is how it takes the basic premise of the “trolley problem” thought experiment and twists it repeatedly (and successfully) to dramatic emotional effect. Akinshina (The Bourne Supremacy) delivers a convincing and compelling performa... |
37340 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
What makes Abramenko’s debut so compelling is how it takes the basic premise of the “trolley problem” thought experiment and twists it repeatedly (and successfully) to dramatic emotional effect. Akinshina (The Bourne Supremacy) delivers a convincing and compelling performa... |
37341 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Fyodorov, for his own part, delivers a sympathetically complex (and on occasion, implicitly sinister) performance as Konstantin, a Russian “hero” torn between his perceived duty to his country and his emotional obligation to a loved one he all but abandoned before embarkin... |
37342 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
The creature design in this movie is terrific, as is the cinematography and the film’s score.
Having previously been slated for a world premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and subsequently dumped on video-on-demand in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sputnik is e... |
37343 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Having previously been slated for a world premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and subsequently dumped on video-on-demand in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sputnik is exactly the kind of horror movie this list was intended to spotlight: a kind of rare gem of inte... |
37344 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
—TE
Suspiria
Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci
Where to watch: Tubi, Kanopy
One of the best-looking movies of all time with one of the best soundtracks of all time. What’s better than that?
Dario Argento’s Suspiria tells the ... |
37345 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
—TE
Suspiria
Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci
Where to watch: Tubi, Kanopy
One of the best-looking movies of all time with one of the best soundtracks of all time. What’s better than that?
Dario Argento’s Suspiria tells the ... |
37346 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
What’s better than that?
Dario Argento’s Suspiria tells the story of Suzy Bannion, an American dancer who moves to Germany to study at the prestigious Tanz Akademie. It just so happens that the academy is run by witches. As the facade of the school unravels, Suzy’s fellow... |
37347 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
While the plot for Suspiria is interesting, what really makes the movie great is how it looks and how it sounds. Everything about the production design, the costumes, and the colors is eccentric in ways no other horror movie has ever matched. Couple all that with the incre... |
37348 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Everything about the production design, the costumes, and the colors is eccentric in ways no other horror movie has ever matched. Couple all that with the incredible and haunting soundtrack from European rock band Goblin, and Suspiria becomes an unforgettable horror classi... |
37349 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Couple all that with the incredible and haunting soundtrack from European rock band Goblin, and Suspiria becomes an unforgettable horror classic that everyone should see at least once. — AG
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Director: Tobe Hooper
Cast: Marilyn Burns, Gunnar H... |
37350 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
The movie follows a group of friends who find themselves hunted by a family of cannibals in the middle of Texas, and is a chilling, violent fever dream that permanently lodges itself in the minds of those who watch it.
Eight films have followed, including a Netflix versio... |
37351 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Eight films have followed, including a Netflix version in 2022, but the original stands out as an unhinged encapsulation of pure chaos and terror. At a tight 83 minutes, the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre is well worth the small time investment to catch up on one of the... |
37352 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
At a tight 83 minutes, the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre is well worth the small time investment to catch up on one of the most influential horror movies ever made. —PV
The Thing
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David
Where to wat... |
37353 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
—PV
The Thing
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David
Where to watch: Peacock
John Carpenter’s postmodern creature feature takes the idea of alien monsters and makes them simultaneously more recognizable and more gross and unworldly t... |
37354 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
The Thing, the second adaptation of the excellent novella Who Goes There?, remains thrilling, terrifying, and absolutely disgusting more than 40 years after its release.
The Thing follows a group of researchers working at an Antarctic base. Suddenly, a dog from a local No... |
37355 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
The Thing, the second adaptation of the excellent novella Who Goes There?, remains thrilling, terrifying, and absolutely disgusting more than 40 years after its release.
The Thing follows a group of researchers working at an Antarctic base. Suddenly, a dog from a local No... |
37356 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
It’s one of the great paranoid thriller premises of all time, but it just so happens to also be filled with gross and fantastic alien gore. There’s nothing quite like The Thing. —AG
The Unfriended movies
Director: Levan “Leo” Gabriadze (Unfriended); Stephen Susco (Unfrie... |
37357 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
There’s nothing quite like The Thing. —AG
The Unfriended movies
Director: Levan “Leo” Gabriadze (Unfriended); Stephen Susco (Unfriended: Dark Web)
Cast: Shelley Hennig, Moses Storm, Renee Olstead (Unfriended); Colin Woodell, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Betty Gabriel (Unfriende... |
37358 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
A masterfully contained horror movie that makes full use of its (at the time) groundbreaking gimmick, Unfriended is a tense teen horror movie that takes place entirely on a character’s laptop screen. Definitely watch it on a laptop if you can, and check out the very good s... |
37359 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
A masterfully contained horror movie that makes full use of its (at the time) groundbreaking gimmick, Unfriended is a tense teen horror movie that takes place entirely on a character’s laptop screen. Definitely watch it on a laptop if you can, and check out the very good s... |
37360 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Definitely watch it on a laptop if you can, and check out the very good sequel Unfriended: Dark Web if you dug this one. —PV
From our list of the best horror movies on Netflix:
Levan Gabriadze’s Unfriended pulls the audiences through the screen — almost literally. Viewed... |
37361 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Viewed entirely from the perspective of a computer desktop, 2014 supernatural horror film centers around a Skype call between a group of high school students who are joined by an unknown presence known only as “billie227.” What at first appears to be a prank swiftly morphs... |
37362 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
Unfriended is thoroughly gripping extrapolation of our always-online world, a world where vengeful poltergeists and doxxing exist side by side and no secret or offense goes undiscovered or unpunished. —TE
Us
Director: Jordan Peele
Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Eli... |
37363 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
—TE
Us
Director: Jordan Peele
Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss
Where to watch: Netflix
Jordan Peele’s already a horror master just three movies into his career, but Us probably still doesn’t have the reputation it deserves. His 2019 psychological sla... |
37364 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
—TE
Us
Director: Jordan Peele
Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss
Where to watch: Netflix
Jordan Peele’s already a horror master just three movies into his career, but Us probably still doesn’t have the reputation it deserves. His 2019 psychological sla... |
37365 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
His 2019 psychological slasher had the unfortunate fate of following up the cultural phenomenon of Get Out, so it had a hard time breaking through, in the way that sophomore projects often do. But taken on its own terms, Us is a fantastic little horror movie with tons of a... |
37366 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
But taken on its own terms, Us is a fantastic little horror movie with tons of atmosphere and an underground society’s worth of great scares.
The movie follows the Wilson family, whose vacation is interrupted by the arrival of a group of doppelgängers who match up with ea... |
37367 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
But taken on its own terms, Us is a fantastic little horror movie with tons of atmosphere and an underground society’s worth of great scares.
The movie follows the Wilson family, whose vacation is interrupted by the arrival of a group of doppelgängers who match up with ea... |
37368 | The best horror movies you can watch right now
The clones, it turns out, are called Tethered, and where they come from is very complicated. But before any kind of explanation of the Tethered, what we see is a parade of violent attacks, home invasions, and some very tense encounters between Lupita Nyong’o and herself.
... |
37369 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
After marathon ‘final’ talks which stretched to almost three days European Union lawmakers have tonight clinched a political deal on a risk-based framework for regulating artificial intelligence. The file was originally proposed back in April 2021 but it’s tak... |
37370 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
The file was originally proposed back in April 2021 but it’s taken months of tricky three-way negotiations to get a deal over the line. The development means a pan-EU AI law is definitively on the way.
Giving a triumphant but exhausted press conference in the... |
37371 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
The development means a pan-EU AI law is definitively on the way.
Giving a triumphant but exhausted press conference in the small hours of Friday night/Saturday morning local time key representatives for the European Parliament, Council and the Commission — t... |
37372 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
The development means a pan-EU AI law is definitively on the way.
Giving a triumphant but exhausted press conference in the small hours of Friday night/Saturday morning local time key representatives for the European Parliament, Council and the Commission — t... |
37373 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
Taking to X to tweet the news, the EU’s president, Ursula von der Leyen — who made delivering a regulation to promote “trustworthy” AI a key priority of her term when she took up the post in late 2019 — also lauded the political agreement as a “global first”.
... |
37374 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
The 🇪🇺 AI Act is a global first. A unique legal framework for the development of AI you can trust. And for the safety and fundamental rights of people and businesses. A commitment we took in our political guidelines – and we delivered. I welcome today's poli... |
37375 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
I welcome today's political agreement. — Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) December 8, 2023
Prohibitions
Full details of what’s been agreed won’t be entirely confirmed until a final text is compiled and made public, which may take some weeks. But a press r... |
37376 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
But a press release put out by the European Parliament confirms the deal reached with the Council includes a total prohibition on the use of AI for:
biometric categorisation systems that use sensitive characteristics (e.g. political, religious, philosophical ... |
37377 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
But a press release put out by the European Parliament confirms the deal reached with the Council includes a total prohibition on the use of AI for:
biometric categorisation systems that use sensitive characteristics (e.g. political, religious, philosophical ... |
37378 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
political, religious, philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, race);
untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage to create facial recognition databases;
emotion recognition in the workplace and educational institutions;
social ... |
37379 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
The use of remote biometric identification technology in public places by law enforcement has not been completely banned — but the parliament said negotiators had agreed on a series of safeguards and narrow exceptions to limit use of technologies such as facia... |
37380 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
This includes a requirement for prior judicial authorisation — and with uses limited to a “strictly defined” lists of crime.
Retrospective (non-real-time) use of remote biometric ID AIs will be limited to “the targeted search of a person convicted or suspecte... |
37381 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
Retrospective (non-real-time) use of remote biometric ID AIs will be limited to “the targeted search of a person convicted or suspected of having committed a serious crime”. While real-time use of this intrusive AI tech will be limited in time and location, an... |
37382 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
While real-time use of this intrusive AI tech will be limited in time and location, and can only be used for the following purposes:
targeted searches of victims (abduction, trafficking, sexual exploitation),
prevention of a specific and present terrorist th... |
37383 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
terrorism, trafficking, sexual exploitation, murder, kidnapping, rape, armed robbery, participation in a criminal organisation, environmental crime).
The Council’s press release on the deal emphasizes that the provisional agreement “clarifies that the regulat... |
37384 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
terrorism, trafficking, sexual exploitation, murder, kidnapping, rape, armed robbery, participation in a criminal organisation, environmental crime).
The Council’s press release on the deal emphasizes that the provisional agreement “clarifies that the regulat... |
37385 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
The Council’s press release on the deal emphasizes that the provisional agreement “clarifies that the regulation does not apply to areas outside the scope of EU law and should not, in any case, affect member states’ competences in national security or any enti... |
37386 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
It also confirms the AI act will not apply to systems exclusively for military or defence purposes.
“Similarly, the agreement provides that the regulation would not apply to AI systems used for the sole purpose of research and innovation, or for people using ... |
37387 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
Digital rights group EDRi, which was among those pushing for a full ban on remote biometrics, said that whilst the deal contains “some limited gains for human rights”, it looks like “a shell of the AI law Europe really needs”.
Real-time public facial recognit... |
37388 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
Real-time public facial recognition (RBI): disappointingly, but not surprisingly, member states resisted a full ban. The Parliament fought hard to narrow exceptions and add more safeguards, but it doesn't look like it will be enough to stop widespread biometri... |
37389 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
Real-time public facial recognition (RBI): disappointingly, but not surprisingly, member states resisted a full ban. The Parliament fought hard to narrow exceptions and add more safeguards, but it doesn't look like it will be enough to stop widespread biometri... |
37390 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
“MEPs successfully managed to include a mandatory fundamental rights impact assessment, among other requirements, applicable also to the insurance and banking sectors. AI systems used to influence the outcome of elections and voter behaviour, are also classifi... |
37391 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
AI systems used to influence the outcome of elections and voter behaviour, are also classified as high-risk,” the parliament wrote. “Citizens will have a right to launch complaints about AI systems and receive explanations about decisions based on high-risk AI... |
37392 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
“Citizens will have a right to launch complaints about AI systems and receive explanations about decisions based on high-risk AI systems that impact their rights.”
There was also agreement on a “two-tier” system of guardrails to be applied to “general” AI sys... |
37393 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
As we reported earlier, the deal reached on foundational models/general purpose AIs (GPAIs) includes some transparency requirements for what co-legislators referred to as “low tier” AIs — meaning model makers must draw up technical documentation and produce (a... |
37394 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
For “high-impact” GPAIs (defined as the cumulative amount of compute used for their training measured in floating point operations is greater than 10^25) with so-called “systemic risk” there are more stringent obligations.
“If these models meet certain criter... |
37395 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
“If these models meet certain criteria they will have to conduct model evaluations, assess and mitigate systemic risks, conduct adversarial testing, report to the Commission on serious incidents, ensure cybersecurity and report on their energy efficiency,” the... |
37396 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
“MEPs also insisted that, until harmonised EU standards are published, GPAIs with systemic risk may rely on codes of practice to comply with the regulation.”
The Commission has been working with industry on a stop-gap AI Pact for some months — and it confirme... |
37397 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
While foundational models/GPAIs that have been commercialized face regulation under the Act, R&D is not intended to be in scope of the law — and fully open sourced models will have lighter regulatory requirements than closed source, per today’s pronouncements.... |
37398 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
While foundational models/GPAIs that have been commercialized face regulation under the Act, R&D is not intended to be in scope of the law — and fully open sourced models will have lighter regulatory requirements than closed source, per today’s pronouncements.... |
37399 | EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
The package agreed also promotes regulatory sandboxes and real-world-testing being established by national authorities to support startups and SMEs to develop and train AIs before placement on the market.
Penalties and entry into force
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