Brussels: The European Commission said Thursday that the Code of Practice, designed to help comply with the European Union's groundbreaking artificial intelligence regulations, could only be issued at the end of 2025 and could indicate delays of more than six months.
European companies such as Alphabet's Google, Meta Platforms, Mistral and ASML, as well as several EU governments, are calling for delays in the implementation of artificial intelligence laws, in part due to lack of codes of practice.
The release of the Large-scale Language Model (GPAI) Code of Practice (GPAI) (GPAI), including Openai's ChatGPT and similar models launched by Google and Mistral, was originally planned for May 2nd.
“As for the GPAI regulations of the AI Act, the European AI Commission is discussing the timing of implementing the Code of Practice, taking into account the end of 2025,” a spokesperson for the committee said.
Signing up for the code is voluntary, but as some large tech companies have shown, companies that refuse to do so will not benefit from the legal certainty provided to their signatories.
The committee opposed the call to delay the rollout of AI rules.
“Our commitment to the goals of AI Act, including establishing harmonious risk-based rules across the EU and ensuring the safety of AI systems in the European market remains unchanged,” the spokesman said.
