CIOInsider India Magazine
Microsoft to Sign the EU's Code of Practice to Assist Businesses
Although Meta Platforms rejected the guidelines, Microsoft's president says that the company is likely to sign the EU's code of practice to assist businesses in adhering to the bloc's historic artificial intelligence regulations. We share concerns raised by these businesses that this over-reach will throttle the development and deployment of frontier AI models in Europe
The voluntary code of practice was created by 13 impartial experts with the intention of giving signatories legal certainty. They will need to implement a policy to adhere to EU copyright law and provide summaries of the material used to train their general-purpose AI models.
The code is a component of the AI Act, which went into effect in June 2024 and will affect hundreds of businesses, including Alphabet, Facebook, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, and Google.
"I think it's likely we will sign. We need to read the documents," Microsoft President Brad Smith says.
"Meta won't be signing it. This code introduces a number of legal uncertainties for model developers, as well as measures which go far beyond the scope of the AI Act," Meta's chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan said in a blog post on LinkedIn.
The U.S. social media giant has the same concerns as a group of 45 European companies, he said.
"We share concerns raised by these businesses that this over-reach will throttle the development and deployment of frontier AI models in Europe, and stunt European companies looking to build businesses on top of them," Kaplan says.
