It will have sanctioning capacity once the European regulation of Artificial Intelligence is approved
The Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence will finally be launched in A Coruña, as announced on Monday by the Minister for Spokesperson and Territorial Policy, Isabel Rodríguez, at a press conference after the Council of Ministers.
A Coruña has prevailed over the other 13 candidates, among which were, for example, Granada and Alicante, and Rodríguez has highlighted the aid package proposed by the candidacy, as well as the support of Galicia and the country's training and business ecosystem .
The minister stressed that the autonomous community will offer mobility aid for displaced workers and their families with housing support as one of the strong points of the candidacy.
It has also valued the business ecosystem that has supported the project, as well as the university and training network. In fact, in a subsequent statement, the Executive emphasizes the international projects in this field of Galician universities, as well as the existing leading companies and their relationship with the university.
The Government also proposes that Galicia become one of the territories in which to deploy the Part of the New Language Economy, since both A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela have research groups in the field of natural language processing.
Apart from Granada and Alicante, the candidacy of A Coruña has been imposed on Ourense, Jerez de la Frontera, Salamanca, Segovia, Barcelona, Guadalajara, Leganés, Palma, Tenerife Island and Zaragoza.
The location of the new agency has been announced together with the Spanish Space Agency, which will be located in Seville. Both processes have supposed the first steps of the new model to decentralize public institutions outside the capital.
POLITICAL REACTION
Among the first members of the Government to speak out in relation to this announcement is the Second Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, born in the province of A Coruña, who has highlighted on her Twitter that this technology must advance "always at the service of the common good".
"We want a country in which digital rights are also social rights", stressed the minister.
For her part, the mayoress of A Coruña, Inés Rey, explained that the city is consolidating its position as a "technological pole of reference in Galicia and now also in Spain".
"Avant-garde and innovation for a leading and pioneering city. Today A Coruña won, Galicia won," he added in a tweet accompanied by a video uploaded a few minutes after the central government's decision was made public.
AI AGENCY
The new Agency has a budget of five million euros and Rodríguez has highlighted that it is the first institution of its kind to be created in the European Union, which means anticipating future requirements imposed by the 'AI Act', still under negotiation in Brussels.
Among the functions that this new agency will have is the creation of a voluntary certification framework for companies on the responsible design of digital solutions, advice to companies and public entities and the power to inspect and sanction, once the European regulation enters into force. on the use of artificial intelligence.
The new agency will also have among its obligations carrying out dissemination activities and supporting the development and use of energy-efficient and sustainable artificial intelligence.
The election of the headquarters is made after the report of an Advisory Commission, which verifies compliance with the requirements by the candidacies sent. All the candidacies have passed this cutoff both in the Space Agency and in Artificial Intelligence.
