Germany’s digital minister, Karsten Wildberger, has attacked the EU’s AI Act as overly advanced and bureaucratic, whereas heaping reward on the Fee’s plan to spend billions establishing large AI coaching hubs generally known as gigafactories.
Wildberger made the remarks in an interview with German publication Tagesspiegel through which he additionally vowed to “strive all the things” to make the AI Act extra “innovation pleasant” as soon as the Fee’s digital simplification observe kicks off within the autumn.
“It’s overloaded and too advanced,” he complained of the EU legislation, including: “In fact dangers must be addressed, however the implementation is extraordinarily bureaucratic.”
Wildberger, a former electronics retail supervisor, grew to become Germany’s first digital minister within the coalition authorities led by Friedrich Merz this Could.
The minister additionally defended the EU’s deliberate “AI gigafactories” in opposition to criticism from the bosses of German giants, SAP and Siemens, who’ve steered the services are pointless.
“If we will’t discover a manner to make use of an information centre with 100,000 high-end AI chips, then I don’t know what do anymore,” stated Wildberger.
Siemens and SAP are world-class corporations, he stated – however identified that decisive innovation most frequently comes from startups.
He additionally stated that Germany must change into extra lively on the European stage.
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