Ursula Von der Leyen backs AI slowdown in State of the Union address

In the speech she gave in Strasbourg on Wednesday, Ursula Von der Leyen agreed to the AI industry’s call for a slowdown.

“The EU would arrange a discussion with the major AI labs on how public authorities can support the industry’s efforts to pace the frontier of this disruptive technology, ” the Commission president said, according to Euronews’ live reporting.

She based her case on the companies’ own words.

“The CEOs of the most advanced companies have told us that it is time to slow down with regard to self-recursive models,” she said to the MEPs, and then went on to state that “if the people who are developing the technology are of the opinion that this is so, then we should be too.”

Ursula Von der Leyen did not give a date for the meeting and mentioned none of the companies that would be invited.

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