AI (Artificial Intelligence) letters are placed on computer motherboard in this illustration taken, June 23, 2023.
"As European digital industry representatives, we see a huge opportunity in foundation models, and new innovative players emerging in this space, many of them born here in Europe.
The signatories, who said just 3% of the world's AI unicorns come from the European Union, backed a joint proposal by France, Germany and Italy to limit the scope of AI rules for foundation models to transparency requirements.
They also said the current broad scope of the draft AI rules could clash with existing legislation in certain sectors such as healthcare.
The companies also rebuffed calls from creative industries for the AI rules to tackle copyright issues.
Persons:
Dado Ruvic, DigitalEurope, Georgina Prodhan, Foo Yun Chee, Sharon Singleton
Organizations:
REUTERS, Rights, Airbus, European Union, Apple, Ericsson, Google, LSE, SAP, Siemens, Thomson
Locations:
BRUSSELS, Europe, France, Germany, Italy