Being biased towards the ‘bias’ might not be the best starting point when attempting to demystify the AI Act Proposal. This piece aims to shed some light on the different meanings of the term and how they could be mixed and misinterpreted in the future Regulation.

The field of AI regulation has been especially dynamic in the recent months with more to come on the horizon. On 11 May 2023 the Internal Market Committee and the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament adopted a draft negotiation mandate on the AI Act. This mandate was endorsed by the whole Parliament on 14 June 2023, marking the beginning of the negotiations on the final form of the Regulation with the Council.

In the previous article, it was explained that the U-Space blueprint outlines a vision of integrated manned and unmanned aviation with the U-Space providing interfaces between the two. Air traffic management typically comprises three distinct activities: air traffic control, air traffic flow management, and aeronautical information services. The U-Space will more or less address all three of them relying on very high degree of automation and digital service.

On 16^th June 2017, the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research (SESAR) Joint Undertaking announced the U-space Blueprint which sets out the vision for traffic management for drones in low-level airspace. It aims to enable complex drone operations with a high degree of automation to happen in all types of operational environments, particularly in an urban context. The new vision hints at a future where highly complex operations in the crowded airspace will be dealt with by autonomous operation of software and sensors in the blink of an eye… Will this new vision live up to its promises of delivering a solution to enable large-scale commercial operations with drones in a safe and secure manner? What are the challenges and what will be the law’s response?