Dominika Sabova interviews Pieter Cleppe, editor of Riks Europe BrusselsReport.eu, on the EU’s regulation of Artificial Intelligence.
Amongst others, he mentions how even French President Emmanuel Macron has pointed out, in December 2023, that “We can decide to regulate much faster and much stronger than our major competitors. But we will regulate things that we will no longer produce or invent. This is never a good idea.” Macron then also said that France, is “probably the first country in terms of artificial intelligence in continental Europe. We are neck and neck with the British. They will not have this regulation on foundational models. But above all, we are all very far behind the Chinese and the Americans.”