EU, we take industry concerns on AI Act seriously

"There is no stop the clock. There is no grace period. There is no pause. We have legal deadlines" defined in the European law on artificial intelligence. At the same time, the European Commission takes "the concerns of the industry" and "Member States" about the implementation of the AI ​​Act "extremely seriously. There are many things we can do, beyond the existing legal text".

This was explained by the spokesperson for the Digital Commission, Thomas Regnier, during the press briefing. Among the measures indicated to meet the requests of the sector and the States, the spokesperson mentioned the postponement of the implementation of the code of good practices on general-purpose AI models, such as Google's Gemini and OpenAi's GPT-4, which will be presented in the coming days.

One can also discuss the "too many administrative burdens for companies" in the framework of the Digital Omnibus, expected by the end of the year, Reigner explained, also recalling the creation of the AI ​​desk service to help companies comply with the regulation. In recent days, the CEOs of 44 large European companies, including Airbus and BNP Paribas, wrote to the President of the Commission asking to put the implementation of the AI ​​Act on hold.