“If we don’t react now, we may soon have a problem.”
Kulis emphasised the need for “rules and regulations that would serve as a shield protecting workers”.
Aside from attracting the attention of several passers-by, Kulis said the use of robots was meant to show their existing capabilities and thereby the urgency of the situation.
He said: “These robots can already move around freely; they’re already ‘protesting’.”
The marching robots were met with a visit from Poland’s Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski, who said: “Uncontrolled [AI] models, implemented into humanoids that will also keep evolving as robotisation moves forward, are a major problem.”
Kulis, who is now the CIO of a robotics company and CEO of an employment agency, served two terms on the Labour Market Council at the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy.
He said: “We feel responsible for starting to inform society about the rapid and dynamic technological changes which personally frighten us.”
In July, Poland’s conservative-nationalist President Karol Nawrocki signed into law a bill by the ministry putting the EU’s AI Act into practice.
It created a national authority capable of enforcing existing EU regulations, which had already formally come into force.
– AFP