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The Lobbying Ghost in The Machine

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Summary

Documents obtained by Corporate Europe Observatory reveal how the EU’s pioneering attempt to regulate artificial intelligence has faced intense lobbying from US tech companies. Via years of direct pressure, covert groups, tech-funded experts – and a last-ditch push by the US Government – tech companies have reduced safety obligations, sidelined human rights and anti-discrimination concerns, and secured regulatory carve-outs for some of their key AI products. Will some of the remaining fundamental rights protections be further watered down during the final trilogue negotiations?

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