Malta: New Technology

AI's impact hinges on the safeguards and governance frameworks that guide its deployment, not the technology itself. Recent harmful chatbot incidents expose the inadequacy of voluntary self-regulation when commercial pressures eclipse safety considerations. The EU AI Act emerges as a critical regulatory intervention to establish mandatory safety standards, accountability mechanisms, and oversight structures that protect the public from preventable AI-related harm.

Artificial intelligence has already sunk deep roots into the way financial services operate. It is guiding risk scoring, detecting unusual patterns in payments, filtering fraud and shaping decisions that once depended entirely on human judgment.

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