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The commissioner said Friday that he and Zuckerberg, chief
executive officer of Meta Platforms, were “aligned” on the EU's regulation of
artificial intelligence, which is now in final negotiations. They agreed on the
bloc's risk-based approach and to measures like watermarking, Breton said.
Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said he, too, agrees with the EU
approach on AI, adding “I really appreciate the European institution here, and
the foresight on taking this issue so seriously, for the rest of the world,
too.”
“We look forward to working with you to be running well in
advance and offering a European service in compliance with the European
market,” Altman told Breton. OpenAI developed the popular chatbot ChatGPT,
which has created intense interest in the possibilities of generative AI, the
technology that produces text or images in response to a user's prompts.
Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs, said his
company “shared our support for the objectives of the AI Pact. While we need to
study the details, we recognize it's important for tech companies to be open
about the work they're doing on AI & engage collaboratively across the
industry, governments & civil society.”
The discussions on Friday were part of Breton's tour this
week of technology companies. After his visit to Meta, Breton said the owner of
Facebook and Instagram appears well-prepared to meet Europe's new strict
content moderation rules, but will submit to a stress test of its systems next
month.
Meta presented “a lot of information” about its work to
comply with the European Union's Digital Services Act, but were also happy to
take a stress test “not to forget anything,” he said.
Zuckerberg agreed to a test in mid-July to assess how the
company handles content moderation rules. Breton said Meta has roughly 1,000
people working on DSA implementation.
Meta's CEO was interested in a future test of how the
company's platforms will handle upcoming competition rules set out by the EU's
Digital Markets Act. Companies have to self-report as gatekeepers with certain
core platform services on July 3.
Breton also said he urged Zuckerberg to increase resources
fighting disinformation, especially Russian disinformation in Eastern European
countries about the war in Ukraine. And he discussed a report from the Wall
Street Journal about child predators targeting kids on Meta's Instagram
photo-sharing site.
Clegg, in a tweet, called it a “constructive” conversation.
“We've invited his team to our Dublin campus to see how we're stress-testing
our processes ahead of implementation,” he said.
Separately, Breton discussed artificial intelligence with Jensen
Huang, CEO of Nvidia, the world's most-valuable chipmaker, which leads the
market in supplying processors for AI. After the sit-down, Huang told reporters
it was “extremely likely” that Nvidia would invest in Europe.
On Thursday, Breton met with Twitter owner Elon Musk and new
CEO Linda Yaccarino and told reporters that the social media site needs to put
more resources toward addressing sensitive content if it wants to comply with
the EU's rules ahead of an August deadline. © Reuters