The European Union's push to regulate has faced intense corporate lobbying attempts at every stage of the policy-making process (Photo: Emiliano Vittoriosi)

Big Tech's attempt to water down the EU AI act revealed

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by Camille Schyns and Bram Vranken, Brussels,

The launch of ChatGPT in November last year has sparked a worldwide debate on Artificial Intelligence systems. Amidst Big Tech's proclamations that these AI systems will revolutionise our daily lives, the companies are engaged in a fierce lobbying battle to water down regulations.

In April 2021, EU commissioners Margarethe Vestager and Thierry Breton presented a ...

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Camille Schyns is a freelance journalist and author of the report ‘The lobbying ghost in the machine’. Bram Vranken is a researcher and campaigner at Corporate Europe Observatory, a Brussels-based NGO monitoring corporate lobbying.

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The European Union's push to regulate has faced intense corporate lobbying attempts at every stage of the policy-making process (Photo: Emiliano Vittoriosi)