CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The Trump administration used this week's G20 innovation summit to draw a bright line between U.S. and European approaches to AI regulation. The bloc's top tech official says the U.S. is ending up with many of the same guardrails anyway.
Why it matters: The U.S. is urging countries to avoid Europe's sweeping approach to AI regulation, but the fight is shifting to which guardrails advanced AI needs and how governments put them in place.
What they're saying: European Commission tech chief Henna Virkkunen told Axios that the two sides often end up addressing the same safety concerns, even if U.S. safeguards are starting to emerge through state laws and court cases rather than something broad like the EU AI Act.
The big picture: The U.S. hasn't adopted sweeping federal AI rules, but Washington is still shaping how companies develop and deploy advanced models through executive actions, voluntary frameworks, national security restrictions and other policy.
Zoom in: The EU is working on a framework for pre-deployment testing and trusted partner access, Virkkunen noted, another area where the EU is working through similar AI policy questions facing the U.S.
Industry leaders at the G20 innovation summit knocked the EU approach to regulation in remarks before Virkkunen as well as representatives from Germany, France and Italy.
The bottom line: As AI has grown more powerful, Washington has increasingly gotten involved with model releases.
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