Comment by Francesc-Marc Álvaro y Vidal

Madam President, Members, the issue of artificial intelligence is crucial for any citizen and for everyone, that is obvious. We understand that the Socialist Parliamentary Group’s non-legislative motion seeks to prevent new exclusions and new inequalities, and in that sense it is timely, although it must be said that part of what it proposes is already included in the regulation recently approved on the matter by the European Parliament. [...] The horizon, as legislators, must be to protect rights and democratic values and not to set them aside. [...] The idea of the social pact for the responsible governance of artificial intelligence is good and indispensable. [...] We must do work to avoid what we would call the jungle, so that the emergence of a tool as exciting as artificial intelligence does not end up making the weak even weaker and those who have less have even less—both when we talk about groups at special risk and when we talk about minors and other citizens.