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US pushes looser AI rules as EU moves ahead with new law

From Al Jazeera · () English

Translated from English and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • The United States urged governments to avoid technology-specific AI rules at a G20 ministerial meeting in North Carolina, prioritizing industry growth and innovation.
  • US technology leaders Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk called for fewer constraints while highlighting shortages of skilled workers and electricity needed to expand AI infrastructure.
  • The European Commission said it had requested information from more than 30 AI companies as a preliminary step toward possible investigations under the EU’s AI Act.

Washington is pressing governments to loosen artificial intelligence rules, while Brussels is moving in the opposite direction with enforcement of its new regulatory framework.

Policymakers do not need to approach each innovation in isolation and should not treat every emerging technology as a first-of-its-kind policy problem.

— Michael KratsiosThe US technology adviser urged governments to avoid regulations targeting individual technologies.

At a G20 “innovation” meeting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Michael Kratsios, a technology adviser to US President Donald Trump, argued that policymakers should not regulate each new technology as a separate policy problem. He urged countries to adopt the so-called Carolina Principles, which favor rules that do not single out specific technologies.

“Policymakers do not need to approach each innovation in isolation and should not treat every emerging technology as a first-of-its-kind policy problem,” Kratsios said. The appeal fits Trump’s broader campaign to cut regulations and make the United States “the world leader in artificial intelligence.”

There will be a significant power shortfall next year, not [the] distant future.

— Elon MuskMusk warned that electricity grids may not meet the energy demands of AI.

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla chief Elon Musk also argued against tighter constraints on AI’s expansion. Zuckerberg said building data centers would require “hundreds of thousands, and maybe millions” of skilled tradespeople, while acknowledging that his company was struggling to meet the demand. Musk focused on electricity, saying AI’s energy needs could exceed the capacity of existing power grids. “There will be a significant power shortfall next year, not [the] distant future,” he said.

relatively free of regulation, meaning that new things must be default legal as opposed to default illegal

— Elon MuskMusk argued that innovation requires fewer regulatory constraints.

Musk also criticized European regulation, arguing that innovation requires entrepreneurs to be “relatively free of regulation, meaning that new things must be default legal as opposed to default illegal”. He said Europe generally treated new activities as “default illegal”, which “slows it down quite considerably”. On the same day, the European Commission said it had sent information requests to more than 30 AI companies worldwide. The requests could lead to formal investigations into compliance with the bloc’s AI Act, which bans some activities considered to pose an unacceptable risk and imposes transparency requirements on other AI services.

Things are generally default illegal. It slows it down quite considerably.

— Elon MuskMusk criticized the European approach to regulating emerging technologies.
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Originally published by Al Jazeera in English. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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