Senator Ted Cruz demands probe into European influence on AI policy By Reuters

By Martin Coulter

LONDON (Reuters) – Republican Senator Ted Cruz has urged U.S. officers to analyze whether or not European governments possess tried to unduly impact the nation’s authorized tricks around synthetic intelligence.

Britain hosted the world’s first global AI safety summit final twelve months, bringing tech executives, world leaders and academics collectively to discuss a coordinated manner on regulation. Some nations possess since position up their very procure AI safety institutes, which possess persevered to fragment expertise all over borders.

Cruz, who ran in opposition to Donald Trump in the Republican Birthday celebration’s 2016 lumber for presidential nominee, is one of the celebration’s most influential senators. He has been a vocal critic of President Joe Biden’s manner to tech regulation.

In a letter addressed to U.S. authorized knowledgeable extraordinary Merrick Garland, dated Nov. 21 nonetheless handiest made public on Monday, Cruz acknowledged European governments had imposed heavy-handed regulations on American AI companies international, and had been now looking out for to lead the route of AI regulations at home.

Cruz described these regulations as “exhausting” and a created from the “radical left”.

“Whereas the Biden-Harris administration can also not are looking out for to checklist the American other folks of compatible how carefully they are collaborating with international governments, at the least, the American other folks possess a compatible to know what international actors are looking out for to impose these radical regulations on American companies,” Cruz wrote.

The European Union has led the worldwide price for regulations tailored to AI technology, having this twelve months passed the AI Act, the world’s first sweeping position of authorized tricks governing the technology.

Cruz cited a memorandum of belief the U.S. issued alongside Britain in April, as properly as a treaty signed by the Biden administration and several European governments, as examples of international impact over domestic AI policy.

Cruz additionally acknowledged the Centre for the Governance of Artificial Intelligence (GovAI), a UK-based fully non-earnings organisation which honest as of late co-hosted a summit for AI policy consultants in San Francisco, had not adopted the regulation by failing to register as a international agent despite enticing in political activities.

“GovAI is responsive to the demand made by Sen. Cruz to the Division of Justice, and, if required, will cooperate fully with the relevant authorities,” a GovAI spokesperson acknowledged.

“GovAI is a strictly self sustaining organisation which is dedicated to working responsibly and transparently.”