Dragoș Tudorache
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Dragoș Tudorache is a Romanian former Member of the European Parliament who served as co-rapporteur for the EU AI Act, alongside Brando Benifei. His parliamentary AI work also included chairing the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age, known as AIDA.[1][2]
Roles and affiliations
The Parliament's ninth-term record covers Tudorache's service from 2019 to July 2024. It records his AIDA chairmanship from September 23, 2020 to March 23, 2022, and his position as a Renew Europe vice-chair from October 2021 to July 2024. His assignments included civil liberties, foreign affairs and the inquiry into Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware. These are dated historical offices.[1]
Contributions and positions
Parliamentary inquiry into AI
AIDA examined AI's economic and social implications, including approaches outside the EU. The European Parliamentary Research Service describes hearings and workshops on public administration, law enforcement, health, agriculture and financial services. Its mandate included identifying shared medium- and long-term objectives for European policy.[3]
The special committee's work was broader than drafting a single instrument. The research service distinguished its inquiry from the separate negotiations on binding AI legislation. It identified Axel Voss as rapporteur for AIDA's draft report, while Tudorache chaired the committee. Keeping those roles separate avoids attributing the report's authorship to its chair.[3]
AI Act negotiations
For the AI Act, Tudorache served as the Civil Liberties Committee co-rapporteur. The official procedure record lists him and Benifei on the joint report and documents the legislation's progression through Parliament and Council. Their contribution was part of a collective lawmaking process involving the Commission, national governments, committees and the full Parliament.[2][4]
Parliament's March 2024 summary describes protections against specified discriminatory and manipulative uses, safeguards for biometric identification, and duties for high-risk AI. It separately describes general-purpose models, including additional evaluation, risk-mitigation and incident-reporting requirements where systemic risks arise. Those were features of the text Parliament approved, rather than an account of every later amendment or implementation decision.[5]
Governance beyond the statute
In the March 2024 debate, Tudorache argued that AI would require reconsideration of democratic institutions, education, employment and warfare. He presented the Act as the beginning of a broader governance effort and stressed the need to implement it. That statement is an attributed political position, not a claim that the legislation resolves all of those policy questions.[4]
Selected parliamentary documents
- Ninth-term parliamentary record — committee positions, reports and debate contributions.[1]
- AI Act procedure 2021/0106(COD) — includes the joint report with Benifei and institutional legislative stages.[2]
Coverage
The European Parliamentary Research Service's March 2022 account explains AIDA's remit and division of responsibilities. Parliament's March 2024 announcement records Tudorache's position on the AI Act and its implementation. These are institutional accounts, distinct from independently authored commentary.[3][4]
Related articles
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 European Parliament, Dragoş Tudorache, ninth parliamentary term record. Accessed September 12, 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 European Parliament Legislative Observatory, Artificial Intelligence Act, procedure 2021/0106(COD). Accessed September 12, 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Maria Niestadt, European Parliamentary Research Service, Investigation into the potential of artificial intelligence in the digital age, March 23, 2022. Accessed September 12, 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 European Parliament, Artificial Intelligence Act: MEPs adopt landmark law, March 13, 2024. Accessed September 12, 2026.
- ↑ European Parliament Legislative Observatory, legislative resolution of March 13, 2024, summary. Accessed September 12, 2026.