The European Union's AI Act represents a crucial step towards regulating ethical and responsible AI systems. However, we find an absence of quantifiable fairness metrics and the ambiguity in terminology, particularly the interchangeable use of the keywords transparency, explainability, and interpretability in the new EU AI Act and no reference of transparency of ethical compliance. We argue that this ambiguity creates substantial liability risk that would deter investment. Fairness transparency is strategically important. We recommend a more tailored regulatory framework to enhance the new EU AI regulation. Further-more, we propose a public system framework to assess the fairness and transparency of AI systems. Drawing from past work, we advocate for the standardization of industry best practices as a necessary addition to broad regulations to achieve the level of details required in industry, while preventing stifling innovation and investment in the AI sector. The proposals are exemplified with the case of ASR and speech synthesizers.

翻译：欧盟《人工智能法案》是迈向规范伦理与负责任人工智能系统的关键一步。然而，我们发现该法案缺乏可量化的公平性指标，且术语存在模糊性——特别是“透明度”、“可解释性”与“可阐释性”等关键词在新法案中被交替使用，同时未提及伦理合规的透明度问题。我们认为，这种模糊性将产生重大的责任风险，从而抑制投资。公平性透明度具有战略重要性。我们建议制定更具针对性的监管框架以完善欧盟新的人工智能法规。此外，我们提出一个用于评估人工智能系统公平性与透明度的公共系统框架。借鉴既往研究，我们主张将行业最佳实践标准化，作为对宽泛法规的必要补充，以满足产业界对具体细节的要求，同时避免抑制人工智能领域的创新与投资。本文以自动语音识别与语音合成系统为例对提案进行了具体说明。