Businesses, researchers urge EU to change AI strategy

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 19 - Fifty European researchers and companies - including EssilorLuxottica, Prada, Pirelli, Exor Group, Meta, Spotify - have urged the EU to change its strategy on artificial intelligence (AI) in order not to "remain excluded from the great benefits of an open technology able to accelerate economic growth and research" in an open letter.
    The appeal sent Thursday to European legislators and regulators - which was also signed by Engineering, Ericsson and Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi (Università degli Studi di Milano), among others - asked for "fast, harmonized, coherent and clear decisions" allowing the use of European data to train AI systems in order to benefit citizens who would otherwise be "deprived of progress instead enjoyed by the US, China and India".
    The European Union's AI Act, the first binding worldwide horizontal regulation on AI which entered into force in August, sets a common framework for the use and supply of AI systems in the EU. (ANSA).