Proposed European Union Artificial intelligence legislation would put Europe’s competitiveness and technological sovereignty at risk, according to an open letter signed by more than 160 executives from companies ranging from Renault to Europe. meta,
EU lawmakers agreed this month on a set of draft rules where systems like ChatGPT would have to disclose AI-generated content, help distinguish so-called deep-fake images from real ones and protect against illegal content. Remedy has to be ensured.
since chatgpt became popular, several open letters calling for regulation were issued oh And the “threat of extinction from AI” is on the rise.
Signatories to previous papers include Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altmanand Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio – two of the three so-called “godfathers of AI”.
A third, Yann Lekun, who works at Meta, signed Friday’s letter challenging the EU rules. Other signatories included executives from companies as diverse as Spanish telecom company Cellnex, French software company Miracle and German investment bank Berenberg.
Those companies, including Renault and Meta, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
We are mainly targeting the European Parliament version because they have decided to move from a risk-based approach to a technology-based approach, which was not in the initial text, former French digital minister and one of the three organizers of One, Cedric O. The letter told Reuters.
He organized the open letter together with Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, founding partner of La Famiglia VC, and René Obermann, chairman of Airbus.
Letter warns technologies will be preferred under proposed EU rules generative ai There will be heavy regulation and companies developing such systems will face high compliance costs and disproportionate liability risks.
It added that such regulation could lead to highly innovative companies moving their activities abroad and investors to withdraw their capital from European AI developments in general.
OpenAI’s Altman, who in May threatened to remove ChatGPT from Europe if upcoming AI laws became too difficult to comply with, later reversed his position and said the company has no plans to exit .
Dragos Tudorche, who co-led the drafting of the EU proposals, told Reuters: “I believe they did not read the text carefully, but rather reacted to the encouragement of some vested interests in the subject.” Is it.”
The suggestions given in the letter are already in the draft law, he said.
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