Written by Andreas Rinke
France, Germany and Italy have reached an agreement on how artificial intelligence should be regulated, according to a joint paper seen by Reuters, which is expected to accelerate negotiations at the European level.
The three governments support "mandatory self-regulation through codes of conduct" for so-called foundation models of AI, which are designed to produce a broad range of outputs. But they oppose "un-tested norms."
"Together we underline that the AI Act regulates the application of AI and not the technology as such," the joint paper said. "The inherent risks lie in the application of AI systems rather than in the technology itself."
The European Commission, the European Parliament and the EU Council are negotiating how the bloc should position itself on this topic.
The paper explains that developers of foundation models would have to define model cards, which are used to provide information about a machine learning model.
