Macron defends EU AI rules and vows crackdown on child ‘digital abuse’
by Robert Booth in Delhi from Technology | The Guardian on (#73P1Z)
French president rejects US criticism as Antonio Guterres and Narendra Modi warn on child safety and AI monopolies
Emmanuel Macron has hit back at US criticism of Europe's efforts to regulate AI, vowing to protect children from digital abuse" during France's presidency of the G7.
Speaking at the AI Impact summit in Delhi, the French president called for tougher safeguards after global outrage over Elon Musk's Grok chatbot being used to generate tens of thousands of sexualised images of children, and amid mounting concern about the concentration of AI power in a handful of companies.
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