Inside the global battle for AI
Politico March 26, 2024
Today POLITICO published a sweeping, transatlantic look inside the global efforts to regulate AI, from reporters Mark Scott, Gian Volpicelli, Mohar Chatterjee, Vincent Manancourt, Clothilde Goujard and Brendan Bordelon. Below is an excerpt of the story, readable in its entirety here, focusing on the competing, sometimes fraught efforts to set a global standard for AI regulation that played out in Japan last year, just ahead of the Bletchley AI policy conference in the United Kingdom.
A month before the conference in the English rain, policymakers had been frantically trying to make progress on the other side of the world.
It was October, and Věra Jourová stepped off her 16-hour flight from Brussels to Japan exhausted. The Czech politician was only...