The European Union has denied that recent movements to overcome some planned technological regulation, mainly abandoning the IA Responsibility Directive, a 2022 bill that had aimed to facilitate that consumers demand for damages caused by enabled products For the AI and Services: They were made in response to the pressure of the Trump administration to deregulate around the AI.
In an interview with the Financial Times On Friday, Henna Virkkunen, the EU digital chief, said that the proposal for the responsibility of AI was being discarded because the block wanted to focus on increasing competitiveness by reducing bureaucracy and bureaucracy.
An upcoming practice code on AI, attached to the EU’s law, would also limit the requirements of reports to what is included in the existing rules, he said.
On Tuesday, the United States vice president, JD Vance, warned European legislators who think again when it comes to making technology rules, urging the block to join him to lean towards the “opportunity of AI”, through a Speech at the AI Action Summit.
The commission published its work program 2025 the day after Vance’s speech, promoting one “Bolder, simpler, faster“Union. The document confirmed the disappearance of the proposal for the responsibility of AI, while establishing the plans aimed at stealing the regional development and adoption of AI.