HISTORICAL ARCHIVE · Original report: 2024-03-13
Members of the European Parliament voted on March 13, 2024 to approve the Artificial Intelligence Act, supporting the European Union’s risk-based approach to regulating AI. The parliamentary vote was 523 in favor, 46 against and 49 abstentions.
The legislation seeks to impose stricter requirements on high-risk AI systems while restricting certain uses considered unacceptable, including social scoring and manipulative applications. It also sets transparency obligations for general-purpose AI models. The March parliamentary adoption was a legislative milestone, not a claim that every provision took effect immediately that day.
Source: European Parliament. This is an original, source-attributed summary of the historical report, not a copy of the source article.
Added to The World Dispatch on October 12, 2026. The event and original reporting date are historical.