OpenAI Pushes for Less Stringent AI Regulations in Europe

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research company co-founded by Elon Musk, has lobbied for the watering down of the most comprehensive AI regulation in the world, the European Union’s AI Act, according to documents obtained by Time via freedom of information requests. The White Paper proposed changes to the draft AI Act that would reduce the regulatory burden on the company. OpenAI argued that its flagship general purpose AI systems, such as GPT-3 and Dall-E, should not be designated high risk under the AI Act and suggested they would be sufficiently safe through existing internal safeguards. The lobbying appears to have been successful, with the agreed final draft of the proposed regulation not containing previous wording that all AI systems should be considered inherently high risk.