Technology Organizations Address Open-Source Development in EU AI Act
Summary
On July 26, 2023, a group of technology organizations, including GitHub, CreativeCommons, Open Future and others, published a letter to EU policy-makers urging more support for open source AI development in the final draft of the proposed EU AI Act. The companies stated in the letter that the EU “AI Act holds promise to set a global precedent in regulating AI to address its risks while encouraging innovation . . . [b]y supporting the blossoming open ecosystem approach to AI, the regulation has an important opportunity to further this goal.” Specifically, the letter suggests that EU lawmakers clarify definitions of AI components, emphasize that hobbyists and researchers using open-source models are not deriving a commercial benefit, provide for limited real-world testing of AI projects and account for proportional requirements for different types of AI models.
