Corporate Europe ObservatoryNov 17, 2023

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The AI Act is at risk of being derailed by a last-minute Big Tech lobbying offensive, our research shows.

âś‹Fundamental rights are at risk of being sacrificed for the sake of corporate profits.

Read the publication here 👉 https://corporateeurope.org/en/2023/11/byte-byte

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Tech giants are receiving privileged and disproportionate access to senior European policymakers during the final stages of negotiating the AI Act. Fundamental rights and protections of copyright and the environment are being sacrificed for the sake of corporate profits.

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Big Tech enjoys privileged access to the EU institutions lobbying the AI Act.

❌ 86% of meetings of the EU Commission high-level officials were with industry

❌ 66% of MEP meetings were with corporate interests

#PrivilegedAccess

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đź’µ Microsoft and Google have used their huge lobbying power to push for foundation models such as ChatGPT to be unregulated.

🤝 In May Google’s CEO even managed to have meetings with three Commissioners in just one day.

https://corporateeurope.org/en/2023/11/byte-byte

Byte by byte | Corporate Europe Observatory

Tech giants are receiving privileged and disproportionate access to senior European policymakers during the final stages of negotiating the AI Act. Fundamental rights and protections of copyright and the environment are being sacrificed for the sake of corporate profits.

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A small group of #BigTech companies is using its dominance in cloud infrastructure and data to aggressively take over the #AI market.

“There is no AI without Big Tech.” says The AI Now Institute

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Pressure from Big Tech and European companies such as Mistral AI has proven successful.

⛔️ Tech companies can self-asses if their AI systems are risky.
⛔️ Major member states are now pushing to exclude foundation models from the AI Act

📢 It is time to kick Big Tech out of the EU’s decision-making process.

We need regulations that take the public interest at heart, not the interests of Big Tech.

#CorporateCapture

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@corporateeurope Corporate lobbying in any form or field should be a crime