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How Big Tech weakens rules on advanced AI: The EU is developing a Code of Practice to govern general purpose AI, as part of the implementation of the AI Act. But Big Tech has heavily influenced the process to successfully weaken the Code, investigations by Corporate Europe Observatory showed. The EWC is among those participants who are raising serious concerns about flawed procedures and the power of lobbying by non-European oligopolies.
Investigation by Corporate Europe Observatory and Lobby Control – based on insider interviews and analysis of lobby papers – reveals, Big Tech enjoyed structural advantages from early on in the process and – playing its cards well – successfully lobbied for a much weaker Code than could have been. That means weaker protection from potential structural biases and social harms caused by AI.
The EWC, its General-Secretary Nicole Pfister Fetz, and its Commissioner for Political Affairs, the novelist Nina George, spoke with Corporate Europe Observatory in the course of their in-depth analysis on how the culture and creative actors as well as civil society organisations in the Code of Practice processes were systematically pushed aside.
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