From the excellent Emily Tucker
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Response from the President of the European Commission.
It would have been good if the President had provided links or citation to the evidence supporting the claims.
https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260325_Response-from-President-EC-AI-Hype.pdf
"According to Nick Clegg, AI would die if the tech oligarchs couldn't steal our work--I am okay with that. If requiring consent kills something, that thing deserves to die."
"After burning through almost a trillion dollars, we finally invented a computer that can't do math."
"For the torment nexus, that is the AI industry, to get built, it needs to convince you that your only option for survival is to help build it."
"We are tearing people down by convincing them that they can't function without these tools. And we are doing this purely because some very rich unhappy oligarchs would like to become even richer if no more happier. There is nothing benevolent about this."
Presidential election in the Republic of Ireland this Friday and Irish Independent reports that deepfakes of RTE news bulletins are circulating. It is quite likely that this falls under an #AIAct prohibition.
https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/ai-deepfake-video-of-catherine-connolly-quitting-presidential-race-goes-viral-on-facebook/a2078741749.html
This prohibition has applied in the EU since 2 Feb 2025. But Ireland, like other EU member states, is yet to empower the relevant regulators. This means that it is not clear which AI regulator in Ireland would be monitoring this prohibition and who could take action
Quoted in Graham Fraser's article in BBC News yesterday on WhatsApp forcing people to use GenAI.
Journalists please consider signing this letter that Alexander Fanta and Jean Comte have put together to address the systemic delays and broad application of exception to not provides access to documents under Regulation 1049/2001 (FOI law).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fhusFP45KVZp1X5LgBQONqKmNZYdSsDmt86y3RuVLVk/edit?tab=t.0
If you are not sure why this is an important problem, check the talk I gave last year at 38th Chaos Communication Congress (38C3) in Hamburg: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-transparency-not-from-the-european-commission
To understand how bad the delays are, compare with DB
.
Open Letter Reg 1049
Dear Commissioner Šefčovič, as journalists, we believe it is our duty to hold those in positions of power accountable. Access to documents, as guaranteed in Article 42 of the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights and Article 15 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and implemented...
Quoted in BBC today.
Microsoft redeploys recall. Still a privacy nightmare.
Microsoft is relying on "one opt-in to rule them all" approach
1. Once you opt-in to Recall, you have to opt-out of specific apps to prevent Microsoft from capturing sensitive information.
"The European Commission’s AI Continent Action Plan is closer to fiction than reality. Steeped in hype, the EU will burn more fossil fuels, rinse and repeat the past, all in the name of leadership."
My piece on Tech Policy Press
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-eu-ai-continent-action-plan-hype-burn-rinse-and-repeat/
