{"id":189074,"date":"2025-06-16T13:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T13:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189074\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T13:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T13:25:12","slug":"eus-waffle-on-artificial-intelligence-law-creates-huge-headache-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189074\/","title":{"rendered":"EU\u2019s waffle on artificial intelligence law creates huge headache \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But the focus has shifted from safety to catching up with American and Chinese companies leading the AI race, and the EU&#8217;s prized <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/bills\/622069\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI rulebook<\/a> is at strong risk of being tweaked as part of a push in Brussels to simplify laws and reduce requirements on businesses.<\/p>\n<p>While digital rights campaigners warn the change of heart could see technological catastrophe come true, industry is also conflicted about the indecision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you actually want to impose something, impose it, if you want to stop the clock, let\u2019s stop the clock,\u201d said Tomasz Sna\u017cyk, CEO of the Polish business group AI Chamber.\u00a0\u201cPeople want to be very certain of what is going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dutch Greens\u2019 lawmaker Kim van Sparrentak, who is an advocate of simply enforcing the laws that she herself helped negotiate, warned about the potential brake on the adoption of technology at a time when only 13 percent of companies in Europe <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/200191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are estimated<\/a> to properly use AI.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13019129-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6756411\"  \/>The European Union\u2019s rules to rein in artificial intelligence risks are barely a year old but they\u2019ve already fallen out of favor. | Ronald Wittek\/EPA<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as we don\u2019t have an AI Act that is being enforced, we keep systems on the market of which you don\u2019t know whether these function well or [if] these are safe. That to me is essential if we want to ensure that a lot of companies start using AI,\u201d said van Sparrentak. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s in contrast to the Big Tech industry backed by the U.S. government, which argues a delay \u2014 at a minimum \u2014 is vital to give the industry the time it needs to comply. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But the focus has shifted from safety to catching up with American and Chinese companies leading the AI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,1394,2437,6641,3457,2814,3677,32,6849,77588,1215,46,53,16,15,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-189074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-big-tech","11":"tag-companies","12":"tag-competitiveness","13":"tag-cybersecurity","14":"tag-data","15":"tag-digital","16":"tag-donald-trump","17":"tag-henna-virkkunen","18":"tag-kim-van-sparrentak","19":"tag-luxembourg","20":"tag-policy","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114693270599618564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}