The European Commission and the US administration have recently signed an “administrative agreement on artificial intelligence for the public good” at a virtual ceremony.
The agreement was signed in the context of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC), launched in 2021 as a permanent platform for transatlantic cooperation across several priority areas, from supply chain security to emerging technologies.
The last high-level meeting of the TTC was held in the US in December 2022. At the time, AI was presented as one of the most advanced areas in terms of cooperation.
A senior US administration official called it "the first sweeping AI agreement between the United States and Europe", stressing that previous agreements on the issue had been limited to specific areas such as enhancing privacy.
"The magic here is in building joint models [while] leaving data where it is," the senior administration official said. "The US data stays in the...