Stricter rules will apply to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the European Union in future, as negotiators from the European Parliament and EU member states agreed on a new law on Friday night after lengthy negotiations. The European Parliament described it as the world’s first AI law. AI usually refers to applications based on machine learning, in which software searches through large amounts of data for matches and draws conclusions from them. They are already being used in many areas, such as evaluating computer tomography images faster with greater accuracy than humans, self-driv…