Kratsios puts the Carolina Principles to the G20: no new AI regulator
White House technology adviser Michael Kratsios presented the Carolina Principles at the G20 innovation ministerial the United States hosted in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on 1 September. The non-binding framework asks governments to avoid creating new AI regulators and to reserve new rules for novel risks. CNET reports Kratsios described a pro-innovation mix of research, commercial pathways and industry-led standards, with any agreements moving to the G20 Leaders Summit in Miami in December. Elon Musk criticised European rules; Mark Zuckerberg pointed to open-weight models.
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Kratsios sets out the Carolina Principles in Chapel Hill
White House technology adviser Michael Kratsios presented the Carolina Principles at the G20 innovation ministerial the United States hosted in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on 1 September. Al Jazeera says the non-binding framework has governments avoid creating new regulatory bodies for AI and reserve new regulation for novel considerations. CNET reports that Kratsios, speaking as director of the US Office of Science and Technology Policy, said in his opening remarks that slow policy adaptation makes it harder to capture the full benefits of innovation. CNET describes the Carolina Principles as a pro-innovation framework aimed at bolstering research, opening commercial pathways and setting industry-led standards for emerging technologies. AFP's account in Al Jazeera says ministers from Japan, Germany, France, India and South Korea attended the two-day meeting, and that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick co-hosted it. CNET writes that governments from India, China, Russia and many European nations were at the forum, whose theme is generative AI.[1], [2]
Sacks likens an AI product-approval agency to a licence-office queue
CNET reports that David Sacks, co-chair of the president's council on science and technology, said in a virtual appearance on Tuesday that it would be a disaster if the United States adopted an FDA for AI. Sacks argued that an agency that had to approve AI product releases would become a licence-office queue where new models wait, that AI is too fast-moving for that approach, and that existing laws and regulators can handle AI threats. Kratsios, in Al Jazeera's account, argued that policymakers do not need to approach each innovation in isolation. CNET writes that any policy agreements reached at the end of the week are to move into the G20 Leaders Summit text signed in Miami in December.[1], [2]
Musk criticises European rules as Zuckerberg defends open weights
Elon Musk, joining the meeting by video, criticised European rules according to Al Jazeera and warned of a significant power shortfall next year. CNET reports Musk said governments give too much support to large incumbent firms and too little to new inventions, and that new inventions should be treated as legal by default. Mark Zuckerberg told the meeting, in Al Jazeera's account, that building data centres would need hundreds of thousands, and perhaps millions, of skilled workers. CNET says Zuckerberg argued that publicly available open-weight models make it easier to start new things and that spreading the technology sets up checks and balances. Al Jazeera writes that the EU AI Act's transparency rules took effect in August and that the European Commission has sent information requests on safety and copyright compliance to more than 30 AI companies.[1], [2]
