Stockholm – Management at the US Tech Giants Google AND Finish He said that the European artificial intelligence industry is stopped by excessive regulations, which increases the rhetoric of Donald Trump's administration, that the strict rules of the region's technology are choke innovation.
Speaking at the TEWOCHENNA TECHA in Stockholm conference in Sweden, bosses of public policy both in Google and Meta used the scene as a platform to express their fears regarding the strict approach of the block to regulating technology, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.
“I think that there is currently a wide consensus that European regulations around technology have their problems, and sometimes it is too fragmented, just like the GDPR (general regulation on data protection), sometimes it goes too far, just like the AI Act”, Chris Yiu , Meta of Meta Director Meta Public Policy said on Thursday the audience of the founders and investors of technology in Techarena.
“But the result of the net of all this is delaying products or departures of citizens and European consumers,” he said.
Yiu pulled out a few recently introduced glasses from the Ray-Ban brand, which use artificial intelligence to translate speech from one language to another or describing images for the visually impaired.
“This is a deep and very human use of technology and is slowly coming to Europe because of regulations related to problems,” said Yiu.
The finish line began to introduce the functions of artificial intelligence for its Ray-Ban Metal metals in some European countries in November, after delay, as the company claimed, it was caused by the need to comply with the “complex regulatory system” in Europe.
The metal previously expressed concerns about his ability to comply with the AI Act, the groundbreaking EU law, which establishes a legal and regulatory framework for technology, determining “unpredictable” implementation, was a basic problem.
The company also stated that the GDPR – EU data privacy framework introduced in 2018 – contained the launch of glasses in EU countries due to problems related to the use of user data by meta and Facebook to train its AI models.
Dorothy Chou, head of public policy Google Deepmind, said that the key problem with Europe's approach to the regulation of artificial intelligence technology was that the AI Act was developed before the CHATGPT left.
The AI Act was first introduced by the European Commission, the EU executive body, in April 2021, Opennai launched CHATGPT in November 2022.
“There is a way to use the policy to create a better investment environment when it is done in a way promoting business,” said Chou, referring to the Act on reducing inflation in the USA.
“I think it is difficult when you regulate on a time scale that does not match technology,” Chou added. “I think that we must both regulate to ensure the responsible application of technology, and at the same time ensure that the industry is developing in the right ways.”
Big Tech cultivates ante
More generally technology companies increase their rhetoric against the EU approach to technology regulation and Increasing lobbying efforts trying to soften aspects of the AI Act.
Kent Walker, president of Google for global, said Politico last month that the EU Practice Code in the field of AI models (GPAI)-who relate to systems such as Family of Large Language Models or LLM, was “LLM step-he was” LLM-CROK in the “wrong direction. “
The EU AI office, a newly created body supervising models under the AI Act, published in December the Code of GPAI practice in the second diet.
At the beginning of this month, the newly appointed Global Director of META, Joel Kaplan, proposed in an interview at the event in the event in Brussels that the technological giant would not be enrolled in the code in its current form.
He said that the rules “go beyond the requirements” of the AI Act and impose “impossible and technically impossible requirements.”
Technology giants pleading for the soft EU technical regulations have already been encouraged by the new administration of President Donald Trump.
Last week, at the international AI Action Summit summit in Paris, JD Vance blew Europe for the fact that it focused too much on the regulation of artificial intelligence, and not to adopt the potential of the growth of this technology.
Harmonizing EU rules regarding startups
Big Tech was not alone calling for a more simplified regulatory system for technology companies operating in Europe.
Several investment investors investing in European technological startups have also condemned the complex burden on regulatory regulations to their portfolio companies.
Antoine Moyroud, a partner of Lightpeed Venture Partners, said that while the USA is raising initiatives such as The Investment project Stargate Stargate $ 500 billion This hitting the “hope” of the message around AI “the narrative of Europe is more” dramatic “.
The region must start thinking “outside the GDPR, beyond the EU AI AC” and create technological stories of success, so that people “excite” the promise of technology.
Lightpeed is investors of French AI Unicorn Mistral, who is often advertised as a key competitor of Europe at OpenAI.
Last year, technological entrepreneurs in the region proposed a new initiative to solve fragmentary market regulations throughout the 27-person block by Establishment of the so -called “28. regime. “ These proposed legal framework in the EU offer companies an alternative to their own national regulations of the Member States instead of replacing them.
For example, there is an Act on a European company under the 28th regime, which facilitates the establishment of public limited liability companies in the EU.
Patrick Collison and co -founder of Wise, Taavet Hinrikus, belong to the founders of the startups who want to set up a new entity based on the 28th regime, called “EU Inc.”
“Europe is a fragmentary place, and what you want to do (to) to be able to employ in every country,” said Luke Pappas, a Venture Capital Nea London partner.
According to Pappas, the key issue of attracting talents, according to Pappas, is that “the process of giving European capital is not very easy.”
“If we manage to standardize capital, it will help significantly,” he added.