Report details how Big Tech is leaning on EU not to regulate general purpose AIs

Google and Microsoft are among the tech giants lobbying European Union lawmakers for a regulatory carve-out for general-purpose AI, according to a report by Corporate Europe Observatory (COE).

The report claims that the companies are seeking a situation where the EU’s forthcoming AI Act applies only to those deploying large language models (LLM) or other general-purpose AIs in “risky” ways.

COE argues that this would open up a “massive hole” in the EU’s flagship AI regulation, shielding tech giants from responsibility to tackle problems such as bias and toxicity. The AIA is still under the EU’s co-legislative negotiation process, and its final form has yet to be decided.