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22 June 2023 / Article
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Copy LinkRémi Bourgeot, Principal Economist for Europe with The Conference Board, recently spoke with a reporter at Atlantico, a leading French online news website, about the EU AI Act and how policymakers need to strike a balance in regulating the booming open-source AI scene. This interview was translated from the original French.
Atlantico: The European Parliament has adopted its position on AI regulation in plenary session. How difficult is it to agree on what AI encompasses and on what we want to regulate?
Rémi Bourgeot: The first difficulty for policymakers is to understand and define artificial intelligence. Radical innovations in large language models are now taking place at an almost weekly pace, bolstered in particular by the surge in open-source AI.
The European AI Act has, in the first instance, been designed on the basis of previous developments, following distinct specialties within AI, and related levels of risk. These range, for example, from an innocuous spam filter to the unacceptable political use of facial recognition. The unification of AI, which began quietly in 2017, is fundamentally changing the game, following in particular the emergence of generative AI models, which handle and generate content of an extremely varied nature. The EU is attempting
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