Artificial intelligence regulation (almost) adopted
The AI Act, or European regulation on artificial intelligence, was the subject of a political agreement between institutions on Friday night. Technology companies say they are disappointed by a text which, they say, will prevent certain innovations from being born and/or used in Europe, while the cultural sector is delighted to have obtained an obligation for transparency of LLM training data. « The political agreement on the AI Regulation took a long time for two reasons: firstly because new provisions on general-purpose AI (generative AI, Editor’s note) were introduced by the Parliament, and also because it took time to agree on the use of AI systems by law enforcement, » a European Commission official explained today at a press briefing. What emerges from last week’s trialogue, which ended on Friday…