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Safety vs innovation? Unpicking the EU’s approach to AI regulation

Margrethe Vestager, Executive VP of the European Commission for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age (L) and Thierry Breton, EU Commissioner for Internal Market.
Margrethe Vestager, Executive VP of the European Commission for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age (L) and Thierry Breton, EU Commissioner for Internal Market. Photo: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images

Hameed Shuja

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Is the EU losing the AI race by spending more time and resources on regulating the technology than developing it? We assess the block’s approach.

Artificial intelligence (or indeed any newly emerging technology), and the practice of regulating it, are linked in a cat and mouse relationship. Technology, and the people who develop and deploy it, are the initiators, the creative force in this union. Regulators, in most cases, sit back, waiting and watching, and

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