EU bureaucrats tangle late into the night on the world’s first landmark AI regulations, as no country wants to kneecap their own tech sector

Fortune December 7, 2023
Jillian Deutsch, Bloomberg

The European Union is nearing a deal on what is poised to become the most comprehensive regulation of artificial intelligence in the western world but negotiators are still trying to hammer out the final details.

Talks continued overnight Wednesday and into Thursday morning, with biometric surveillance one of the main outstanding issues. Delegates from the European Commission, the European Parliament and 27 member countries agreed to a set of controls for generative artificial intelligence tools such as OpenAI Inc.’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard — the kind capable of producing content on command, people familiar with the discussions said early Thursday.

That step brings the group closer to a formal agreement over a broader piece of legislation known as the AI...

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