A new study analyses how the EU AI Act overlaps and interacts with other EU digital laws, urging coherence, simplified compliance, and coordinated governance.
I agree the complexity of all these laws together is crazy. But what I'm missing from these reports is how exactly Europe is losing innovation? Are there actual startups leaving only because of this? ChatGPT started in 2022, and the AI Act didn't even anticipate gen AI at the time. Fastforward 3 years, the EU still doesn't have a significant gen AI model, regardless of the AI Act.
For the EU, it’s sometimes about lip service regarding innovation, but the results speak for themselves. The layers of regulation can make it harder for startups to develop fast or take risks. Most talent and funding still flow to the US, where the enabling environment is more flexible. The overall culture of control and legal caution slows down progress before anything even starts. Frustrating.
It certainly slows things down and makes even simple EU policies sound overly complicated. Sometimes it feels like decisions are made more to satisfy legal arguments than to solve real problems people actually care about.
I agree the complexity of all these laws together is crazy. But what I'm missing from these reports is how exactly Europe is losing innovation? Are there actual startups leaving only because of this? ChatGPT started in 2022, and the AI Act didn't even anticipate gen AI at the time. Fastforward 3 years, the EU still doesn't have a significant gen AI model, regardless of the AI Act.
For the EU, it’s sometimes about lip service regarding innovation, but the results speak for themselves. The layers of regulation can make it harder for startups to develop fast or take risks. Most talent and funding still flow to the US, where the enabling environment is more flexible. The overall culture of control and legal caution slows down progress before anything even starts. Frustrating.
As a friend working inside European Commission said: EU has too much lawyers lawyering
It certainly slows things down and makes even simple EU policies sound overly complicated. Sometimes it feels like decisions are made more to satisfy legal arguments than to solve real problems people actually care about.