The negotiations began on Wednesday afternoon, went into the entire night, continued during the morning and concluded on Thursday afternoon, with an agenda that reportedly featured over 23 items, reflecting the extreme technicality of the issue at hand.
The Act is considered the world’s first attempt to regulate artificial intelligence, a technology with an astonishing and often unpredictable capacity to evolve, in a comprehensive, ethics-based and environmentally sustainable manner.
The discussions took place against the backdrop of aggressive lobbying from Big Tech and start-ups, stark warnings from civil society and intense media scrutiny as the legislation from Brussels could well influence state-led efforts across the world.
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