The European Union reached a provisional agreement to simplify its flagship artificial intelligence regulation. Member states and the European Parliament concluded a deal to delay key obligations for high-risk AI systems and streamline compliance requirements for businesses. “We now make the AI rules more workable in practice, remove overlaps, and pause the high-risk requirements. In order for Europe to become an AI continent, we need to promote innovation, support startups and scaleups, and make it easier to build AI in Europe.” That reads well. It also, rather quietly, sidesteps the harder question: if the requirements have not changed and nothing […]
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