On Wednesday, 30 July, Google announced in a blog post that it was going to adhere to the AI Code of Practice (see EUROPE B13678A17). At the same time, the company was critical of [the code’s] impact on European competitiveness.
In the post—attributed to Kent Walker, the company’s president of global affairs—Google states that it is signing in the hope that the code will promote “European citizens’ and businesses’ access to secure, first-rate AI tools”.
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