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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern and Lisa O'Carroll

EU urged to protect grassroots AI research or risk losing out to US

A mobile phone screen displaying the OpenAI logo in front of the ChatGPT homepage
AI efforts from OpenAI and Google are heavily controlled by their creators, in contrast to open-source development. Photograph: Michael Dwyer/AP

The EU has been warned that it risks handing control of artificial intelligence to US tech firms if it does not act to protect grassroots research in its forthcoming AI bill.

In an open letter coordinated by the German research group Laion, or Large-scale AI Open Network, the European parliament was told that “one-size-fits-all” rules risked eliminating open research and development.

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