Emmanuel Macron warns the EU's AI Act risks hampering tech companies compared to US, UK, and China rivals, and says France is “neck and neck with the British”
French president argues landmark rules may leave European tech companies lagging rivals in US, UK and China
Can't judge the specifics of the act - @Zach_CER knows more. But Macron is wrong: the EU regulates a lot that we do not produce or invent. That's precisely what the Brussels effect is about.
Macron “attacked the new Artificial Intelligence Act agreed last Friday, saying: “We can decide to regulate much faster and much stronger than our major competitors. But we will regulate things that we will no longer produce or invent. This is never a good idea.” #AIAct [image]
The FT piece ignores this bit of the speech: “We have had European regulations to consolidate, it's a good thing, a French model of regulation”. He did not say the AI Act *would* kill EU innovation but that we should “evaluate this regulation regularly” to ensure it doesn't.
A space to watch: EU's new AI Act risks hampering innovation, warns Emmanuel Macron, while Commissioner Breton negotiated the compromise agreement ↘️ https://giftarticle.ft.com/...
Macron: “We can decide to regulate much faster and much stronger than our major competitors. But we will regulate things that we will no longer produce or invent. This is never a good idea”. https://www.ft.com/...
‘We are neck and neck with the British. They will not have this regulation on foundational models’. Macron on Brexit benefits. EU's new AI Act risks hampering innovation, warns Emmanuel Macron https://www.ft.com/...
“When I look at France, it is probably the first country in terms of artificial intelligence in continental Europe. We are neck and neck with the British. They will not have this regulation on foundational models”. https://www.ft.com/...