{"id":24397,"date":"2026-09-07T19:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/24397\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T19:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:20:11","slug":"protesting-robots-take-to-the-streets-in-poland-demanding-ai-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/24397\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesting robots take to the streets in Poland, demanding AI regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIf we don\u2019t react now, we may soon have a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Kulis emphasised the need for \u201crules and regulations that would serve as a shield protecting workers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">He said: \u201cThese robots can already move around freely; they\u2019re already \u2018protesting\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">The marching robots were met with a visit from Poland\u2019s Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski, who said: \u201cUncontrolled [AI] models, implemented into humanoids that will also keep evolving as robotisation moves forward, are a major problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">He said: \u201cWe feel responsible for starting to inform society about the rapid and dynamic technological changes which personally frighten us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">In July, Poland\u2019s conservative-nationalist President Karol Nawrocki signed into law a bill by the ministry putting the EU\u2019s AI Act into practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">It created a national authority capable of enforcing existing EU regulations, which had already formally come into force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIf we don\u2019t react now, we may soon have a problem.\u201d Kulis emphasised the need for \u201crules and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14952,395,14950,13219,14948,14947,14945,14928,8248,310,14946,14953,1294,9,1385,14942,598,1731,14949,14944,14943,317,2892,14951,45],"class_list":["post-24397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-affairs","tag-ai","tag-around","tag-campaign","tag-chanting","tag-circles","tag-demanding","tag-digital","tag-front","tag-in","tag-marching","tag-ministry","tag-monday","tag-poland","tag-polish","tag-protesting","tag-regulation","tag-robots","tag-slogans","tag-streets","tag-take","tag-the","tag-to","tag-took","tag-warsaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}