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Ironically, the wifi sucks here. #digitalSovereignty
First speaker: Karsten Wildberger
DE Fed Minister for Digital Transformation & Government Modernisation
Absolutely horrified to hear BS about "EU only buying" and "too much ex ante legislation." The EU digital governance has been built over decades on observed harms, and the EU is passing China on both WIPO AI IP and the market capitalisation of the companies that hold it.
There's certainly a problem with the US domiciling & failing to regulate a few transnational utilities, but AI is much more than those few companies.
Roland Lescure
French Ministry for the Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty, is much better! Claims to be aligned with Wildberger, but talks about the need to enforce and support DSA & DMA.
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Henna Virkkunen
exec vp for tech sovereignty, security, and democracy, EC
says DMA & AIA being enforced.
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In our paper, "Is there an AI Cold War", @helenamalikova and I showed that the EU was absolutely building AI, on par with China as measured through WIPO patents and the market cap of companies that hold those patents. That was 2020, but it's still true, here is the unpublished updated data:
https://online.ucpress.edu/gp/article/2/1/24803/117647/Is-There-an-AI-Cold-War
Wildberger talks about how exciting it was to watch Trump destroy regulatory capacity and herd non-White Americans into private prisons. No, he says it was thrilling to watch Trump sign the US AI action plan and how the US loves and embraces risk and technology, and the EU should do the same. Does he know that the rest of the US market has been in decline, only five heavily hyped companies keep the US looking OK for several years- this isn't just Trump #digitalSovereignty https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tkbweudpy6tvzjqdiza4z3p5/post/3lijaiasdrk22
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Anne Le Hénanff, Minister Delegate for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs, France – we are being too slowed down by standards writing. But for some reason she wants to slow down the #AIA rather than recognising regulatory capture by the standards process (I warned about that in 2022: https://data-en-maatschappij.ai/en/publications/paper-belgian-and-flemish-policy-makers-guide-to-ai-regulation )
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