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At risk of sounding reductionist, there are probably three nodes of power in the global AI sector: the US, China, and the EU.
Each took their AI visions a step forward this month – each stepping in a different direction.
Trump announced his plan for world AI “domination” (otherwise known as the AI Action Plan), a 28-page executive order with 90 export-loving, infrastructure-building, innovation-unleashing policy actions. We can believe he means it.
He gave Big Tech the green light with repealed export controls, energy and infrastructure support, and reduced protections for consumers and against misinformation.
In response, China posed as the good cop, offering an innovation-sharing, governance-protecting, and planet-friendly alternative. A PR stunt? Almost certainly.
At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, Premier Li Qiang proposed a new ‘global AI governance organisation’ and a 13-point Global AI Governance Action Plan, calling for UN-aligned governance frameworks, open-source collaboration, environmental standards, etc.
The European Union, ignoring both, pushed forward with the implementation of its divisive AI Act. It thinks it’s showing global leadership, but it’s probably just making AI harder to do on its own patch.
In July, it published the GPAI (general-purpose AI) Code of Practice, covering transparency, copyright, safety, and risk obligations for GPAI model providers.
From August, AI providers must comply with the mandatory rules and do some other complicated reporting things.
The US wants to dominate AI, China claims to want to share AI (but secretly wants to dominate it), and the EU wants to police it.
Each bloc claims moral high ground while dragging AI toward their own political and economic agenda. The result? A very stretched, very confused “AI” wondering who’s holding the user manual.