AI Act: Brando Benifei believes that the Commission is not respecting the legislator’s wishes with its Code of Practice
Brando Benifei, the MEP who negotiated the AI Act on behalf of the European Parliament, is not at all satisfied with the third draft of the Code of Practice on generative AI, which is supposed to address issues relating to fundamental rights, transparency and copyright. He worries that the Commission is lightening the obligations of AI developers compared to the text of the AI Act, and calls on it to review the Code substantially before publication. Following its dialogue with Commissioner Teresa Ribeira on the Digital Markets Acts, which we wrote about here, the European Parliament’s Internal Market Committee (IMCO) yesterday organized a debate around the future Code of Practice on general-purpose AI, provided for in the 2024 AI Act. The Code is currently being drafted, with a third version…