The move follows Altman’s remarks last week about OpenAI might consider leaving Europe if it could not comply with the European Union’s upcoming regulations on artificial intelligence.
European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton will reportedly meet OpenAI’s chief executive officer Sam Altman to discuss European Union’s regulations on artificial intelligence. The meeting will happen in San Francisco in June, Reuters reported.
The goal of the discussion would be to get the parent company of ChatGPT to join a group of European and non-European companies to apply the rules governing AI ahead of their enforcement in 2026, the report noted. It further highlighted that the EU industry chief will have an in-depth discussion on datasets along with the practical aspects of the implementation of the AI Act.
It is noteworthy that the move comes after Altman said last week that OpenAI might consider leaving Europe if it could not comply with the European Union’s upcoming regulations on artificial intelligence. To this, Breton responded that Europe’s AI regulations are not up for a bargain.
Altman’s comments follow the EU’s proposal last month for new copyright rules for generative AI tools like ChatGPT. OpenAI’s Altman further suggested last week that the current draft of the EU AI Act could be “over-regulating” and a lot of things in it could be changed. This includes changing the definition of General Purpose AI Systems, or GPAIS, which is a category proposed by the EU lawmakers to account for AI tools with more than one application, Reuters reported. These include generative AI models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
The EU lawmakers reached common ground on the draft of the act earlier this month. The remaining aspects of the bill will now be debated in the Parliament before reaching a consensus on its final details.
The proposal, in the meantime, is seen to pave the way for the world’s first comprehensive laws governing the AI technology that has taken the world by storm since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November last year. The Microsoft-backed ChatGPT, short for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, has been the center of attention due to its human-like response.
Meanwhile, EU’s Breton also met Google’s chief executive officer Sundar Pichai last week wherein the American tech major committed to work with the European lawmakers on what is being referred to as an AI Pact. “We expect technology in Europe to respect all of our rules, on data protection, online safety, and artificial intelligence. In Europe, it’s not pick and choose. I am pleased that @SundarPichai recognises this, and that he is committed to complying with all EU rules,” Breton tweeted on May 24.
