US urges hands-off approach to AI regulation at G-20 tech meeting | The Straits Times
US urges hands-off approach to AI regulation at G-20 tech meeting | The Straits Times
摘要: US urges hands-off approach to AI regulation at G-20 tech meeting
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AI companies want less regulation around the world for their rapidly growing businesses, or to shape the rules as they are written.
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Sep 02, 2026, 09:13 AM
Sep 02, 2026, 09:13 AM
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The US urged G-20 members to avoid broad AI regulations, promoting the "Carolina Principles" to focus only on novel AI situations and signed by China.
Industry leaders like Zuckerberg, Musk, and Hassabis addressed the meeting, debating AI safety, open-weight models, and the impact of EU regulations.
The US faces rising AI competition from China, stressing the need to keep the world within the American tech ecosystem amid security and innovation concerns.
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CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina - The US pressed G-20 members on Sept 1 to take a hands-off approach to AI regulation and avoid creating rules for the technology at a gathering of industry titans and commerce ministers in North Carolina.
The US goals largely align with the thinking of the world’s biggest AI companies, nearly all of which are American.
They want less regulation around the world for their rapidly growing businesses, or to shape the rules as they are written.
Federal government requirements could hurt the industry’s profits if they slow the release of new models or prompt the companies to change how their products perform to address security concerns.
US tech adviser Michael Kratsios, who is co-hosting the two-day meeting, advocated for countries to adopt the “Carolina Principles.”
Countries that signed on agreed to avoid writing entirely new regulations for AI, and instead focus on writing rules for “novel” situations involving the technology, he told the G-20 officials in a speech on the morning of Sept 1.
The Chinese government signed the principles, he told reporters on the afternoon of Sept 1.
He did no