EU Sticks With Timeline For AI Rules (reuters.com)
(Saturday July 05, 2025 @04:00AM (msmash)
from the tussle-continues dept.)
- Reference: 0178282308
- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/04/198257/eu-sticks-with-timeline-for-ai-rules
- Source link: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/artificial-intelligence-rules-go-ahead-no-pause-eu-commission-says-2025-07-04
Reuters:
> The European Union's landmark rules on AI will be [1]rolled out according to the legal timeline in the legislation, the European Commission said on Friday, dismissing calls from some companies and countries for a pause.
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> Google owner Alphabet, Facebook owner Meta and other U.S. companies as well as European businesses such as Mistral and ASML have in recent days urged the Commission to delay the AI Act by years.
Financial Times [2]adds :
> In an open letter, seen by the Financial Times, the heads of 44 major firms on the continent called on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to introduce a two-year pause, warning that unclear and overlapping regulations are threatening the bloc's competitiveness in the global AI race.
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> [...] The current debate surrounds the drafting of a "code of practice," which will provide guidance to AI companies on how to implement the act that applies to powerful AI models such as Google's Gemini, Meta's Llama and OpenAI's GPT-4. Brussels has already delayed publishing the code, which was due in May, and is now expected to water down the rules.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/artificial-intelligence-rules-go-ahead-no-pause-eu-commission-says-2025-07-04/
[2] https://www.ft.com/content/a825759e-aec8-4184-bc73-f604f169204c
> The European Union's landmark rules on AI will be [1]rolled out according to the legal timeline in the legislation, the European Commission said on Friday, dismissing calls from some companies and countries for a pause.
>
> Google owner Alphabet, Facebook owner Meta and other U.S. companies as well as European businesses such as Mistral and ASML have in recent days urged the Commission to delay the AI Act by years.
Financial Times [2]adds :
> In an open letter, seen by the Financial Times, the heads of 44 major firms on the continent called on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to introduce a two-year pause, warning that unclear and overlapping regulations are threatening the bloc's competitiveness in the global AI race.
>
> [...] The current debate surrounds the drafting of a "code of practice," which will provide guidance to AI companies on how to implement the act that applies to powerful AI models such as Google's Gemini, Meta's Llama and OpenAI's GPT-4. Brussels has already delayed publishing the code, which was due in May, and is now expected to water down the rules.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/artificial-intelligence-rules-go-ahead-no-pause-eu-commission-says-2025-07-04/
[2] https://www.ft.com/content/a825759e-aec8-4184-bc73-f604f169204c
The road to hell is paved with good intentions (Score:2)
by DutchDopey ( 1905596 )
On one side the EU is starting to do some investments and discovering that they are severely lagging behind on production and innovation. But on the other side the EU is killing and limiting the initiatives and capabilities that could help the EU recovering some of its position. And although so well intended, if the rest of the world moves on, you can try to keep up even if it means you need to chose some negatives, or you are left behind and get forced to adapt the negatives.
Europeans follow rules? (Score:4, Funny)
by commodore73 ( 967172 )
As an American, I find this concept offensive.
Yeah right (Score:2)
"We're in a race to the bottom and if EU implements these rules we might lose that race"