Title: Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe? Experts’ Concerns on European AI Act
Abstract: In the last decade, there have been numerous innovations in artificial intelligence technologies in many domains, many innovations more or less favourable.However, artificial intelligence has been and is the subject of multiple controversies, such as the perpetuation of inequalities, discrimination, biased decisions, and other issues regarding transparency and data protection.These problems destroy the trust of citizens and institutions in artificial intelligence.Consequently, the European Commission proposed the AI Act, a regulation for assessing Ai products or services.Our study explores experts' main concerns on artificial intelligence technologies.In the present paper, we analysed the feedback provided by 262 stakeholders on the proposal of the European Commission regarding artificial intelligence through a text mining approach using Latent Dirichlet allocation.The prevalent topics were related to AI applications in industry, transparency and responsibility, and AI technologies testing.The analysis also revealed topic differences based on the type of organisation, especially between consumer organisations and academic/research institutions.