EU countries still can’t get it together on AI
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BRUSSELS — As European leaders prepare to project urgency at their first joint meeting on artificial intelligence, their governments are missing important AI safety and infrastructure targets. The bloc’s 27 leaders are meeting Friday in Dublin to discuss how to accelerate efforts to stay safe and be more competitive on artificial intelligence.
Yet 16 capitals have missed a deadline to appoint a national authority to enforce the bloc’s AI safety law, and Brussels has also pushed back an effort to support the buildout of data centers because of national administrative delays. European Parliament lawmaker Sergey Lagodinsky, a German member of the Greens, said the delays are undermining capitals’ credibility when speaking about Europe’s AI ambitions.
“Stop blaming the EU for missing the race if you miss your own deadlines,” he said.
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