Trump Administration Pressures Europe to Ditch AI Rulebook
Trump and the EU are increasingly clashing over the latter’s role as the world’s chief digital rulemaker, and the President has lambasted the bloc’s tech regulations and fines as unfairly targeting US companies.
Photographer: Al Drago/BloombergUS President Donald Trump’s administration is putting pressure on Europe to ditch a rulebook that would compel developers of advanced artificial intelligence to follow stricter standards of transparency, risk-mitigation and copyright rules.
The US government’s Mission to the EU reached out to the European Commission to push back against the AI code of practice in the last few weeks. The letter argues against the adoption of the code in its current form, and also went out to several European governments, people familiar with the matter said. In response to Bloomberg questions, commission spokesman Thomas Regnier confirmed the reception of the letter.