{"id":26401,"date":"2025-04-17T02:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T02:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/26401\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T02:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T02:57:08","slug":"commission-bars-ai-agents-from-joining-online-meetings-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/26401\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission bars \u2018AI agents\u2019 from joining online meetings \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The technology was mentioned in a wider Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/virtual-worlds-toolbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">package<\/a> on virtual worlds published March 31. &#8220;AI agents are software applications designed to perceive and interact with the virtual environment,&#8221; the text read. Agents can &#8220;operate autonomously,&#8221; but their work is set by &#8220;specific predefined rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leading AI companies have all been experimenting with their own AI agent applications. In January, OpenAI launched Operator, a research version of an AI agent that can carry out several tasks in a separate web browser. Microsoft has also been rolling out the possibility of creating agents in its AI &#8220;companion&#8221; Copilot. French AI company Mistral also offers a platform to build agents.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the technology isn&#8217;t covered by any specific legislation, but the AI models that power the agents will have to abide by the EU&#8217;s binding AI Act. <\/p>\n<p>The technology could also come into focus when the Commission explores specific legislation on algorithmic management, the idea that employees are being managed by algorithms, later this mandate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The technology was mentioned in a wider Commission package on virtual worlds published March 31. &#8220;AI agents are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[3721,1942,7960,11576,3374,2000,299,5187,1699,1302,16138,16139,3694],"class_list":{"0":"post-26401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-algorithms","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-big-data","11":"tag-brussels-bubble","12":"tag-employment","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-innovation","18":"tag-internet-governance","19":"tag-internet-search","20":"tag-robotics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114351062626421441","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}